List of baseball parks in Detroit

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




 * Recreation Park
 * Home of:
 * Detroit Wolverines - National League (1881–1888)
 * Detroit - International League (1889–1890) / Northwestern League (1891 - one game)
 * Location: Brady Street (south, home plate); Beaubien Street (east, right field); Harper Hospital and John R Street (west, left field); Brush Street T-intersecting Brady from the south (southwest, third base side); location often given as "Brady and Brush Streets." About 18 blocks north-northwest along Brady from the site of Comerica Park
 * Currently: Approximate ballpark site occupied by Children's Hospital of Michigan, part of Detroit Medical Center


 * Riverside Park
 * Home of: Detroit - Northwestern League (1891 - a few games in late May / early June before folding)
 * Location: "between Jefferson Avenue and Detroit River, across from Belle Isle" (also across from a horse race track north of Jefferson) (Okkonen). Jefferson Avenue (north, first base) (Detroit Free Press, June 1, 1891, p.6); adjacent to clubhouses of Michigan Yacht Club and Detroit Yacht Club.
 * Currently: Owen Park


 * Boulevard Park aka Western League Grounds
 * Home of: Detroit Tigers - Western League (1894–1895)
 * Location: north side of Champlain Street (now East Lafayette Street - home plate) between Grand Boulevard (right field) and Helen Avenue (left field); location usually given as "Lafayette (or Champlain) and Helen"
 * Currently: Church of the Messiah (Episcopal), residential, vacant lot


 * Bennett Park
 * Home of: Detroit Tigers - Western League (1896–1899) / American League (1900 [as minor league], 1901–1911)
 * Location: Trumbull Avenue (east, first base); Michigan Avenue (south, third base); Cherry Street (north, beyond right field); National Avenue (west, beyond left field). On same site as later Navin Field/Briggs Stadium/Tiger Stadium.
 * Currently: Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark


 * Tiger Stadium prev. Briggs Stadium, Navin Field
 * Home of: Detroit Tigers - American League (1912–1999)
 * Location: 2121 Trumbull Avenue (east, right field); Michigan Avenue (south, first base); Cherry Street (later Kaline Drive - north, left field); National Avenue (later Cochrane Street - west, third base). On same site as earlier Bennett Park - stands demolished and rebuilt, and home plate moved from southeast corner to southwest corner of site.
 * Currently: Willie Horton Field of Dreams at The Corner Ballpark


 * Burns Park (Detroit, Michigan)
 * Home of: Detroit Tigers AL American League (1900 [as minor league], 1901–1902; Sundays only)
 * Location: "southwest corner Toledo Avenue [now Vernor Highway] and Waterman Avenue" [Polk's 1901 Detroit City Directory]
 * Currently: Industrial area near rail yards


 * Mack Park
 * Home of: Detroit Stars - Negro National League (1920–1931)
 * Location: southeast corner of Mack Avenue (first base) and Fairview Street (right field); just north of Southeastern High School
 * Currently: Fairview Apartments


 * Hamtramck Stadium
 * Home of:
 * Detroit Wolves - Negro East-West League (1932 part season)
 * Detroit Stars - Negro National League (1933)
 * Location: in Hamtramck, Michigan - A block east of Joseph Campau Street near Dan Street (southwest, home plate); Berres Street (dead ends to the west); Roosevelt Street (northwest) - address given as 3201 Dan Street.
 * Currently: Veterans Memorial Park baseball field; Keyworth Stadium is just to the northeast


 * Dequindre Park
 * Home of: Detroit Stars - Negro American League (1937)
 * Location: Dequindre Avenue (east); Modern Street (south); Orleans Street (southwest); Riopelle Street (also southwest); south of Six Mile (McNichols) Road; roughly 2½ miles northwest of Hamtramck Stadium
 * Currently: Caramagno Foods Facility


 * Comerica Park
 * Home of: Detroit Tigers - AL (2000–present)
 * Location: 2100 Woodward Avenue (ballpark is actually one block east of Woodward); Witherell Street (west, right field); East Adams Avenue (south, center field); Brush Street (east, left field); East Montcalm Street (north, home plate)