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This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Newark, New Jersey and adjacent cities.

Contents

• Parks
• See also
• Sources
• External links

Parks

• Waverly Fairgrounds aka Waverly Park
  • Home of: Elizabeth Resolutes - independent through 1872 / National Association 1873.
  • Location: part of a community called Waverly, which was bordered by Lower Road (now Dayton Avenue), Haynes Avenue, and Frelinghuysen Street
  • Currently: Weequahic Park in Newark
• Wright Street Grounds
  • Home of:
    • Newark Domestics/Little Giants - Eastern League (1884-1886)
    • Newark Giants - International League (1887 only)
    • Newark Trunkmakers - Central League (1888 only)
    • Newark Little Giants - Atlantic Association (1889-1890) [per local newspapers]
  • Location: on a block bounded by Wright Street (northeast, third base); buildings and Avenue A (northwest, first base); Vanderpool Street (southwest, right field); and Avenue B (southeast, left field) [per Sanborn map]
• Shooting Park aka Schützen Park
  • Home of Newark - Atlantic League
  • Location: on a block touched by South Orange Avenue, Munn Avenue, Myrtle Avenue and Rodwell Avenue. The Atlantic League club played on a diamond somewhere within the park.
  • Currently: The property evolved into what is now Vailsburg Park.
• Wiedenmayer's Park
  • Home of:
    • Newark Sailors/Indians - Eastern League / International League(1902 - mid-1915) (to Harrisburg) / new club Indians/Bears 1916 through 1918
    • Newark Cubans - Atlantic League (1914 only) to Long Branch mid-1914
    • Also one American League game on July 17, 1904
  • Location: Hamburgh (or Hamburg) Place (now Wilson Avenue) and Avenue L teeing into Hamburgh (northeast, home plate); railroad tracks and Heller & Merz Company buildings and Avenue M (southeast, left field); East Kinney Street or possibly Delancy Street (southwest, center field); buildings and Avenue K (northwest, right field) [per Okkonen]
    • (adjacent to the later site of Ruppert Stadium)
  • Currently: Avenue L extended, and food service businesses
  • SABR article on the ballpark
• Morris Park
  • Home of: Newark - Atlantic League (1907 only)
  • Location: on Bloomfield Avenue
• Harrison Park aka Harrison Field aka Federal League Park
  • Home of: Newark Peppers - Federal League (1915); Newark Bears - International League (1919) (to Syracuse); Newark Bears again - International League (1921-mid-1923) (field burned on August 18, 1923)
  • Location: Harrison, New Jersey, a city adjacent to Newark - Middlesex Street [now Angelo Cifelli Drive] (north, third base); South 3rd Street (east, left field); Burlington Avenue (south, right field); South 2nd Street (west, first base); also railroad yards skirting the southeast corner of the property.
  • Currently: Industrial plant
  • SABR article on the ballpark
• Meadowbrook Oval aka Meadowbrook Field aka Asylum Oval
  • Home of: Newark Bears - International League (1924 - mid-1925) moved to Providence; moved back for 1926; Newark Dodgers - Negro National League (1934–35)
  • Location: South Orange Avenue (southwest, third base); buildings and South 12th Street (southeast, first base); asylum and Fairmount Cemetery (north, center field)
  • Currently: West Side High School
    • Sanborn map showing faint outline of the ballpark, 1930
• Ruppert Stadium originally Davids' Stadium, then Bears Stadium
  • Home of:
    • Newark Bears - International League (1926-1949)
    • Newark Eagles - Negro National League (1936-1948)
      • also the site of some major league games from time to time
  • Other sports: Newark Bears - first American Football League (1926)
  • Location: Hamburgh (or Hamburg) Place (now Wilson Avenue) (northeast, home plate); Avenue L and Heller & Merz Company buildings (southeast, left field); East Kinney Street (southwest, center field); Avenue K (northwest, right field)
  • Currently: Industrial plant
  • SABR article on the ballpark
• Newark Schools Stadium originally City Field
  • Home of: Newark Stars - Eastern Colored League (1926 part season)
  • Location: North 10th Street (northwest); 1st Avenue West (southwest); Roseville Avenue / North 8th Street (southeast); Bloomfield Avenue (northeast) [per Lowry]
  • Currently: rebuilt in 2011
  • Sanborn map showing embryonic facilities, 1920
• Sprague Field aka General Electric Field
  • Home of Newark Browns - East-West League (1932) / independent other years
  • Location: in Bloomfield, New Jersey - Bloomfield Avenue (northeast); LaFrance Avenue (southeast); Floyd Avenue (southwest); Arlington Avenue (west and northwest) - stated as first base line, third base line, left field, and center and right fields, respectively
  • Currently: Felton Playground
  • SABR article on the ballpark
• Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium
  • Home of: Newark Bears - Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (1999-2013)
  • Location: 450 Broad Street, Newark (west, first base); Division Street (north, third base); Bridge Street (south, right field); Highway 21 and Passaic River (east, left field)
  • Currently: demolished, land being redeveloped

See also

• Sports in Newark, New Jersey
• Lists of baseball parks

Sources

• Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
• Michael Benson, Ballparks of North America, McFarland, 1989.
• Marc Okkonen, The Federal League of 1914-1915: Baseball's Third Major League, SABR, 1989.

External links

• Summary of professional baseball in Newark
• Baseball in Newark
• Summary of Newark Bears baseball
• Summary of International League ballparks ^{[ usurped ]}
• Summary of Negro Leagues ballparks
• Sanborn map showing Wright Street Grounds, 1892
• Sanborn map showing Electric Park, formerly Shooting Park, now Vailsburg Park, as it was in 1909