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| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°59′30″N75°09′04″W / 39.9918°N 75.1511°W Coordinates: 39°59′30″N75°09′04″W / 39.9918°N 75.1511°W |
| Surface | Natural grass |
| Opened | May 2, 1882 (first AA game) |
| Closed | September 21, 1882 (last AA game) |
| Tenants | |
| Philadelphia Athletics (AA) (1882) Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia (1877–1881) | |
Oakdale Park is a former baseball park that was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This field was home to the Philadelphia Athletics professional baseball team in the first season of the American Association, 1882. The site of the park had been used for amateur baseball since the Civil War. It was used from 1877 to 1881 by the Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia. [1]
The 1882 Athletics played at the park, bounded by Huntingdon Street (north), 11th Street (east), Cumberland Street (south), and 12th Street (west) in the West Kensington neighborhood. [2] The Athletics played 39 regular-season games at the park, compiling a 21–18 record. [3] The franchise relocated to Jefferson Street Grounds in 1883. [4]
Oakdale Park was sold shortly thereafter and torn down. Philadelphia Ball Park was built several blocks west of this site, five years later.
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