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Old 09-09-2024, 03:01 PM   #181
LansdowneSt
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Originally Posted by asrivkin View Post
Well, maybe it was actually 1888? In any case, the next park is the first in the distinguished line of Oriole Parks, which continues to this very day. This Oriole Park was also known as Huntingdon Avenue Base Ball Grounds, which is close enough to the name of another park in this thread that I'm going to use the Oriole Park name.

While the Orioles had great success in the National League in the mid to late 1890s, during the years they spent in this park as an American Association team they were mediocre to bad.

Google Drive Link to Oriole Park I

There's not a whole lot out there about this park, and I didn't find any atlases of Baltimore that covered the area of the park at the time it was in operation. Its location was _just_ north of the city limits c. 1885, so maps didn't cover it. I took most of my information from this article about early Baltimore ballparks on the SABR website, and heavily based it on an artist's rendition of the relevant map in the article (which I'll attach below for the curious). Since that rendition didn't show a covered grandstand this park doesn't have one either, if only for a little bit of variety. The background is from Baltimore (near the Johns Hopkins Campus if I remember right?) but may be a bit less urban than spectators really would have seen.

I'm trying to tackle the remaining ballparks in roughly the order of number of years they were used. I think that means Cincinnati's Avenue Grounds next, though I may just go ahead and do Oriole Park II and Newington Park while I've got Charm City on my mind...
Nice to see an Old Oriole Park. I used to live about 3 blocks from this site (and in the same block as John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson's house). The grass and such in the background throws me though. A consequence of knowing the area so well, I guess. That neighborhood hasn't changed much. It's classic Baltimore row houses that are across the street. Row houses akin to what is still there in and around that block:

Like these:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3178...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

Rowhouses notwithstanding - love the work!!!
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