List of baseball parks in Memphis, Tennessee

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This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Memphis, Tennessee. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.

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Central Park
Home of: Memphis Red Stockings or Reds League Alliance 1877
Location: "Dunlap Street, corner Marshall Avenue or Pigeon Roost Road" [1]
Pigeon Roost Road (southwest, right field corner); Spring Street (south, first base); Middle Street (extension of Dunlap) (east, right field); Dubose Street (north, left field); Walnut Street (west, third base) [2]
Currently: parking lot
Olympic Park later Citizens' Park
Home of: Memphis Reds / Memphis Giants / Memphis Leaguers / Grays / Giants SL 1884–1889, 1892–1895
Location: "North Side of Ohio Avenue (L. & N. Railroad); between Marley, Brinkley and Spring Avenues". [3] Streets were renamed: Ohio became Autumn Avenue; Marley became Ayers Street; Brinkley became Decatur Street; and Spring became Galloway Avenue. [4]
Currently: residential and commercial buildings
Russwood Park
Home of:
Memphis Chicks Southern Association 1901–1959 (destroyed by fire April 17–18, 1960, just before season opener)
Location: 914 Madison Avenue (south, home plate); Dunlap Street (west, left field); Jefferson Avenue beyond bordering buildings (north, center field); creek (later covered to make a parking lot) outside right field fence
Currently: University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Martin Stadium orig. Lewis Park
Home of: Memphis Red Sox NNL 1924–1925, 1927, 1929–30 NSL 1932 NAL 1937–1941, 1943–1950
Location: 476 Iowa Avenue (now E.H. Crump Boulevard) (south, first base); Driver Street and South Danny Thomas Avenue/Boulevard (orig. South Wellington Street or LaRose) (west, third base); South Lauderdale Street (east, right field); buildings and East Railroad Avenue (north, left field)
Currently: Truck terminal (Tri-State Truck Center is on NE corner) 494 East E.H. Crump
Golden Park
Temporary home of: Memphis Chicks, 5 home games 1960
Location: Columbus, Georgia
Hodges Field
Temporary home of: Memphis Chicks 1960, a few games after the fire
Location: 1030 Jefferson Avenue (south) – a football field a couple of blocks northeast of the Russwood site
Tobey Park
Temporary home of: Memphis Chicks 1960, remainder of the home schedule
Location: Central Avenue (south); South Hollywood Street teeing into Central from the south; Flicker Street (east) [5]
Tim McCarver Stadium orig. Blues Stadium, also Chicks Stadium – opened 1963 as American Legion Park
Home of:
Memphis Blues Texas League 1968–1973 / International League 1974–1976
Memphis Chicks Southern League 1978–1997
Memphis Redbirds Pacific Coast League 1998–1999
Location: 800 Home Run Lane (east, right field); Raymond Skinner Drive (south, first base); Early Maxwell Boulevard (west, third base); Seelbinder Drive (north, left field); within the former Mid-South Fairgrounds
Currently: vacant lot (demolished 2005)
AutoZone Park
Home of: Memphis Redbirds 2000–present
Location: 200 Union Avenue (south, first base); South 4th Street (east, right field); Madison Avenue (north, left field); buildings and South B.B. King Boulevard (orig. South 3rd Street) (north, left field); less than two miles straight east along Madison from the Russwood site
FedExPark orig. Nat Buring Field
Home of: University of Memphis Tigers, Metro Conference 1972 – present
Location: East Getwell Loop Street (east, right field); parking lots and South Park Loop (north, left field)

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References

Specific
  1. 1877 Memphis city directory, p.41
  2. 1888 Sanborn map: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3964mm.g3964mm_g083481888/?sp=60&st=image Memphis baseball park 1888
  3. 1877 and 1884 Memphis city directories, p.42 and 24 respectively
  4. 1910 Memphis city directory pp.1817, 1800, 1669 and 1860 respectively
  5. Memphis Commercial Appeal, July 8, 1960, p.26
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