List of baseball parks in Seattle

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T-Mobile Park is the home of the Seattle Mariners. SafecoFieldOF.jpg
T-Mobile Park is the home of the Seattle Mariners.

The following is a list of current, and former professional baseball stadiums in Seattle, Washington. The list consists of only known stadiums. In all, there were nine known professional baseball parks in the city of Seattle. Of those nine, three stadiums have housed a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. The first stadiums was played on in 1892 by the Seattle Hustlers. The only current stadium is T-Mobile Park, the home of the Seattle Mariners of MLB.

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Stadiums

Sick's Stadium was built in 1938 and demolished in 1979. Sick's Stadium, 1967.gif
Sick's Stadium was built in 1938 and demolished in 1979.
The Kingdome was imploded in 2000. Kingdome implosion.jpg
The Kingdome was imploded in 2000.
Stadium nameYear(s)CapacityTeam(s)Distance to Center FieldRef
Madison Park 1892N/A Seattle Hustlers N/A [1]
YMCA Field1896–1903N/A Seattle Yannigans/Rainmakers, Seattle Clamdiggers, Seattle Chinooks N/A [2]
Recreation Park Base Ball Grounds1905N/A Seattle Siwashes N/A [3]
Yesler Way Park1907–1912N/A Seattle Siwashes, Seattle Turks, Seattle Giants N/A [4]
Dugdale Field ~1900–193215,000 Seattle Giants, Ballard Pippins N/A [5]
Civic Field1932–193815,000 Seattle Indians, Seattle Rainiers N/A [6] [7]
Sick's Stadium 1938–197925,420 Seattle Rainiers, Seattle Angels, Seattle Pilots, Seattle Steelheads 405 feet (123 m) [8]
Kingdome 1976–200059,166 Seattle Mariners 405 feet (123 m) [9]
T-Mobile Park 1999–present46,621 Seattle Mariners 405 feet (123 m) [10]
A panoramic view of Dugdale Field. Dugdale park 01.jpg
A panoramic view of Dugdale Field.
YMCA Field at 14th and Jefferson (1902) YMCA baseball field at 14th and Jefferson, Seattle, ca 1902 (MOHAI 1344).jpg
YMCA Field at 14th and Jefferson (1902)

YMCA Field, also known as Athletic Park, opened in 1895 at the corner of 14th and Jefferson streets, the ballpark closed after the 1903 season. Today, Seattle University's Championship Field soccer stadium occupies a large portion of the site of YMCA Field. [11] [12] [13] [14]

Dan Dugdale, who played on and owned several early Seattle professional teams, built Yesler Way Park and Dugdale Field. [15] [16] [17] Dugdale Field burned down due to arson in 1932, so the Seattle minor league team relocated Civic Field, on the site of Memorial Stadium. [7]

See also

References

  1. "Madison Park Minor League History". Baseball Reference . Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  2. "YMCA Field Minor League History". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  3. "Recreation Park Base Ball Grounds Minor League History". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  4. "Yesler Way Park Minor League History". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  5. "Dugdale Field Minor League History". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  6. "Civic Field Minor League History". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  7. 1 2 Eskenazi, David; Rudman, Steve (May 3, 2011). "Wayback Machine: A fire that changed our sports". Sportspress Northwest. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
  8. "Sick's Stadium Minor League History". Baseball Reference. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  9. "Kingdome, Seattle, Washington". Ballparks.com. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  10. "Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington". Ballparks.com. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  11. "Recreation Park in Seattle, WA minor league baseball history and teams". StatsCrew.
  12. "The Great Game: Y.M.C.A. grounds being prepared for baseball". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer . April 19, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved November 18, 2025.
  13. Ketcherside, Rob (January 10, 2019). "Seattle's YMCA Park, 1895-1903". ba-kground.
  14. "Championship Field". Seattle University .
  15. "Dugdale, Daniel E. (1864-1934)". HistoryLink . Retrieved February 28, 2025.
  16. Obermeyer, Jeff. "Dan Dugdale". Society for American Baseball Research . Retrieved February 28, 2025.
  17. "Photo: Seattle baseball dates back 100 years". KOMO. June 12, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2025.