page_title: Adelaide Oval
section_title: Baseball
hierarchical_section_title: Adelaide Oval / Baseball
caption_attribution_description: English: Spalding's touring Chicago White Sox side from the 1888 world tour.
context_page_description: Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby league, rugby union, soccer, tennis among other sports as well as regularly being used to hold concerts. Austadiums.com described Adelaide Oval as being "one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in Australia, if not the world". After the completion of the ground‘s most recent redevelopment in 2014, sports journalist Gerard Whateley described the venue as being "the most perfect piece of modern architecture because it's a thoroughly contemporary stadium with all the character that it's had in the past".
  Adelaide Oval has been headquarters to the South Australian Cricket Association since 1871 and South Australian National Football League since 2014. The stadium is managed by the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority. Its record crowd for cricket was 55,317 for the Second Ashes Test on 2 December 2017 and its record crowd for an Australian rules football match was 62,543 at the 1965 SANFL Grand Final between Port Adelaide and Sturt.
context_section_description: In 1888, American Baseball administrator Albert Spalding brought the Chicago team and an additional composite team called the All-Americans  to Australia and would play a series of three exhibition matches at Adelaide Oval. Chicago would win the Adelaide series 2-1. Following on from this exhibition of the match in Australia, over the next few years intercolonial matches were commonly played against other states on the ground.
caption: Albert Spalding's 1888 tour sides with the Chicago team left and All-American team right. The two sides played three matches at Adelaide Oval with Chicago winning 2-1.
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