List of baseball parks in Denver

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Location of Denver in the United States of America .

This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Denver, Colorado, United States. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.

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Broadway Grounds (I)

Home of

Location

East 16th Avenue (north); Lincoln Street (east); East Colfax Avenue aka East 15th Avenue (south); North Broadway (west); catty-corner to the northwest of the state capitol

Currently

Part of the Civic Center

Larimer Street Baseball Park

Home of

Location

Larimer Street (southeast); 32nd Street (southwest); Blake Street (northwest); 33rd Street (northeast). About 10 blocks northeast of the eventual site of Coors Field

Currently

Commercial/industrial

River Front Park

Home of

Denver Mountaineers – Western League / Western Association (1887–88)

Location

Plot of land roughly bounded by 16th Street (southwest); 17th Street (northeast); Bassett Street (southeast); and the Platte River (northwest). Part of what is now Commons Park

Athletic Park or Broadway Park (II)

Home of

Location

North Broadway (east, first base); Cherry Creek (northeast, right field corner); West 7th Avenue (north, right field); South 14th Street (now Acoma Street) (west, left field); West 6th Avenue (south, third base) - Denver Health Medical Center across Acoma to the west

Currently

Hotel and parking garage

Merchants Park

Home of

Location

600 South Broadway (east, first base); Virginia Avenue (south, third base); Bannock Street (west, left field); Dakota Avenue (north, right field). Near Alameda Avenue (two blocks farther north); location also given as Exposition Avenue (two blocks south) and Broadway

Current use

Site of Broadway Plaza shopping center and business complex

Mile High Stadium

Mile High Stadium on July 13, 1995.jpg

Originally Bears Stadium

Home of

Location

2755 West 17th Avenue (south, right field); Elliot Street (west, first base); West 20th Street (north, third base); Clay Street (east, left field – now part of Mile High Stadium Circle)

Previously

City dump

Currently

Parking lot for Sports Authority Field, which overlaps the old site in the southwest (center field) portion

Coors Field

Coors field 1.JPG

Home of

Colorado Rockies – NL (1995–present)

Location

2001 Blake Street (southeast, first base); 20th Street (southwest, third base); railroad tracks, then Wewatta Street (northwest, left field); 22nd Street (northeast, right field)

Previously

Denver Pacific Railroad Station and Union Pacific Railroad buildings

See also

Sources

39°44′21″N104°59′06″W / 39.7392°N 104.9850°W / 39.7392; -104.9850 (Denver)

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