League Park League Park was a baseball park located in Cleveland , Ohio . It was situated at the northeast corner of Lexington Avenue and E . 66th Street in the Hough neighborhood . It was home to the National League Cleveland Spiders , the American League Cleveland Indians , and the Cleveland Buckeyes of the Negro American League . Most of the structure was demolished in 1951 , although some remnants still remain . History . League Park was opened on May 1 , 1891 , with 9 , 000 wooden seats . The National League ' s Cleveland Spiders played there until going out of business after a disastrous 20 – 134 season in 1899 due to having their best players stripped from their roster by an unscrupulous owner . They were replaced the very next year by the Cleveland Lake Shores , which was initially a minor league team . In 1901 , the renamed Cleveland Bluebirds were a charter member in the new American League , which became a major league . ( Between 1901 and 1915 , the team would change names thrice before settling on " Indians " . ) The park was rebuilt for the 1910 season as a concrete - and - steel stadium — one of two to open that year in the American League , the other being Comiskey Park . The new park had more than double the seating capacity of its predecessor . From July 1932 through the 1933 season , the Indians played at the new and far larger Municipal Stadium . However , the players and fans complained about the huge outfield , which reduced the number of home runs . Moreover , as the Great Depression worsened , attendance at the much larger facility plummented . In 1934 the Indians moved most of their games back to League Park . In 1936 , the Indians began splitting their schedule between the two parks , playing Sunday and holiday games at Cleveland Stadium during the summer and the remainder at League Park . Beginning in 1938 , they also played selected important games downtown at Cleveland Stadium . Lights were never installed at League Park , and thus no major league night games were played there . However , at least one professional night game was played on July 27 , 1931 , between the Homestead Grays and the House of David , who borrowed the portable lighting system used by the Kansas City Monarchs . By 1940 , the Indians played most of their home schedule at Municipal Stadium , abandoning League Park entirely after the 1946 season . League Park became the last stadium used in Major League Baseball never to install permanent lights . After the demise of the Negro American League Cleveland Buckeyes following the 1950 season , League Park was no longer used as a regular sports venue . Most of the structure was demolished the next year . The Cleveland Browns football team would continue to use the aging facility as a practice field until the late 1960s . Structure . When it originally opened in 1891 , it had 9 , 000 wooden seats . A single deck grandstand was behind homeplate , a covered pavilion was along the first base line , and bleachers were located at various other places in the park . The ballpark was shoehorn ed to fit into the Cleveland street grid , which contorted the dimensions into a rather odd rectangular shape by modern standards . The fence in left field was 385 ft , a tremendous 460 | ft away in center , and a short 290 | ft down the right field foul line . However , batters had to hit the ball over a 60 | ft fence to hit a home run ( by comparison , the Green Monster at Fenway Park is only 37 | ft high ) . It was essentially rebuilt prior to the 1910 season , with concrete and steel double - decker grandstand s , expanding the seating capacity to 21 , 414 . The design work was completed by Osborn Engineering , a local architecture firm that would go on to design several iconic ballparks over the next three years , including Comiskey Park , the Polo Grounds , Tiger Stadium , and Fenway Park . The front edge of the upper and lower decks were vertically aligned , bringing the up - front rows in the upper deck closer to the action , but those in back could not see much of foul territory . The fence was rejiggered , bringing the left field fence in 10 feet closer 375 | ft and center field fence in 40 feet ( 420 | ft ) ; the right field fence remained at 290 | ft . batters still had to surmount a 60 | ft fence to hit a home run ( by comparison , the Green Monster at Fenway Park is only 37 | ft high ) . The fence in left field was only five feet tall , but batters had to hit the ball 375 | ft down the line to hit a home run , and it was fully 460 | ft to the scoreboard in the deepest part of center field . The diamond , situated in the northwest corner of the block , was slightly tilted counterclockwise , making right field not " quite " as easy a target as Baker Bowl ' s right field , for example . League Park today . Today the site is a public park . A small section of the exterior brick facade ( along the first - base side ) still stands , as well as the old ticket office behind what was the right field corner . The last remnant of the grandstand , crumbling and presumably unsafe , was taken down ca . 2002 as part of a renovation process to the decaying playground . The park is currently slated for a massive renovation / rebuild that will restore it to its original state . Notable events . Some historic events that took place at League Park include the following :