League Park
Location	Lexington Ave & E 66th St, Cleveland, Ohio
Broke ground	1891
Opened	May 1, 1891
Renovated	April 21, 1910
Closed	September 21, 1946
Demolished	1951
Owner
Surface	Grass
Architect	Osborn Engineering (1910)
Former names	Dunn Field (1916-1927)
Tenants	Cleveland Indians (AL) (1901-1946) Cleveland Spiders (NL) (1891-1899) Cleveland Buckeyes (NAL) (1943-1948) Cleveland Rams (NFL) (1937), (1942), (1944-1945)
Capacity	9,000 (1891) 21,414 (1910)
Field dimensions	Left Field - 375 ft (114. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Osborn Engineering, officially Osborn Architects & Engineers, is an architectural and engineering firm noted mostly for designing sports stadiums The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League ( AL) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in The Cleveland Spiders were a Major League Baseball team which played between 1887 and 1899 in Cleveland Ohio. The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League ( NL) is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional Baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues. The Negro American League was one of the several Negro Leagues which were created during the time organized baseball was segregated The St Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. 3 m) Left-Center - 415 ft (126. 5 m) Center Field - 420 ft (128 m) Right-Center - 317 ft (96. 6 m) Right Field - 290 ft (88. 4 m)

League Park was a baseball stadium located in Cleveland, Ohio. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state It was home to the National League Cleveland Spiders, the American League Cleveland Indians and the Cleveland Buckeyes of the Negro American League. The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League ( NL) is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball The Cleveland Spiders were a Major League Baseball team which played between 1887 and 1899 in Cleveland Ohio. The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League ( AL) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional Baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues. The Negro American League was one of the several Negro Leagues which were created during the time organized baseball was segregated It was located at the northeast corner of Lexington Avenue and E. 66th Street.

League Park was opened on May 1, 1891, and sat 9,000 on wooden seats at the time. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The 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 an entry in the new American League, which was initially a minor league and became a major league a year later. The stadium was rebuilt for the 1910 season, with concrete and steel grandstands, now seating 21,414. Champions World Series: Philadelphia Athletics over Chicago Cubs (4-1 Awards and honors The owner renamed the park after himself, so for a while it was called "Dunn Field". After ownership changed hands, the name reverted to the more prosaic "League Park" (there were a number of professional teams' parks called by the generic "League Park" at one time, but in this case the name stuck). The Indians began playing night, holiday and weekend games at the far larger Cleveland Stadium in 1932, although in some years following they played exclusively at League Park. Cleveland Stadium (also known as Lakefront Stadium and Cleveland Municipal Stadium) was a Baseball and American football stadium located in They split games between the two stadiums off and on until the end of the 1946 season. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals over Boston Red Sox (4-3 All-Star Game Lights were never installed at League Park, and thus night games were not regularly played there. However, at least one night game was played on July 27th, 1931, between the Homestead Grays and the House of David -- who borrowed the portable lighting system used by the Kansas City Monarchs. The Homestead Grays were a professional Baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues in the United States. For 1947, under the ownership of Bill Veeck, the Indians moved to Cleveland Stadium full-time. William Louis Veeck Jr (ˈvɛk rhymes with "wreck" February 9 1914 &ndash January 2 1986) also known as " Sport Shirt League Park became the last stadium used in Major League Baseball never to install permanent lights.

Because of a need to squeeze the ballfield into the Cleveland street grid, the stadium was rather oddly shaped by modern standards. It was only 290 feet (88 m) down the right field line—though batters still had to surmount a 60-foot (18 m) fence to hit a home run (by comparison, the Green Monster at Fenway Park is only 37 feet (11 m) high). The Green Monster is the nickname of the thirty-seven-foot two-inch (11 The fence in left field was only five feet tall, but batters had to hit the ball 375 feet (114 m) down the line to hit a home run, and it was fully 460 feet (140 m) 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. Baker Bowl is the best-known popular name of a Baseball park that formerly stood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After the demise of the Negro American League Cleveland Buckeyes following the 1950 season, League Park was no longer in use as a regular sports venue. The Negro American League was one of the several Negro Leagues which were created during the time organized baseball was segregated The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional Baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Philadelphia Phillies (4-0 All-Star 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. The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio.

League Park today

Today the site is a public park, which includes a baseball field in the approximate location of the original. 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.

Notable events

Some historic events that took place at League Park include the Cleveland Indians winning the 1920 World Series, the Cleveland Buckeyes winning the Negro World Series in 1945, and perhaps most famously, it was where baseball legend Babe Ruth hit his 500th home run on August 11, 1929. Cy Young made the first pitch in this stadium in 1891.

External links

• Diagram re-creation, and photo of the remnants of the ballpark
• Official Commemorative Site