List of baseball parks in Newark, New Jersey

• Waverly Fairgrounds aka Waverly Park
• Home of: Elizabeth Resolutes - independent through 1872 / National Association 1873.
• Location: part of a community called Waverly, which was bordered by Lower Road (now Dayton Avenue), Haynes Avenue, and Frelinghuysen Street
• Currently: Weequahic Park in Newark
• Wright Street Grounds
• Home of:
• Newark Domestics/Little Giants - Eastern League (1884-1886)
• Newark Giants - International League (1887 only)
• Newark Trunkmakers - Central League (1888 only)
• Newark Little Giants - Atlantic Association (1889-1890) [per local newspapers]
• Location: on a block bounded by Wright Street (northeast, third base); buildings and Avenue A (northwest, first base); Vanderpool Street (southwest, right field); and Avenue B (southeast, left field) [per Sanborn map]
• Shooting Park aka Schützen Park
• Home of Newark - Atlantic League
• Location: on a block touched by South Orange Avenue, Munn Avenue, Myrtle Avenue and Rodwell Avenue. The Atlantic League club played on a diamond somewhere within the park.[http://newarkparks.com/electric.php]
• Currently: The property evolved into what is now Vailsburg Park.
• Wiedenmayer's Park
• Home of:
• Newark Sailors/Indians - Eastern League / International League(1902 - mid-1915) (to Harrisburg) / new club Indians/Bears 1916 through 1918
• Newark Cubans - Atlantic League (1914 only) to Long Branch mid-1914
• Also one American League game on July 17, 1904 [https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1904/B07170NYA1904.htm]
• Location: Hamburgh (or Hamburg) Place (now Wilson Avenue) and Avenue L teeing into Hamburgh (northeast, home plate); railroad tracks and Heller & Merz Company buildings and Avenue M (southeast, left field); East Kinney Street or possibly Delancy Street (southwest, center field); buildings and Avenue K (northwest, right field) [per Okkonen]
• (adjacent to the later site of Ruppert Stadium)
• Currently: Avenue L extended, and food service businesses
• [https://sabr.org/bioproj/park/wiedenmayers-park-newark-nj/ SABR article on the ballpark]
• Morris Park
• Home of: Newark - Atlantic League (1907 only)
• Location: on Bloomfield Avenue
• Harrison Park aka Harrison Field aka Federal League Park
• Home of: Newark Peppers - Federal League (1915); Newark Bears - International League (1919) (to Syracuse); Newark Bears again - International League (1921-mid-1923) (field burned on August 18, 1923)
• Location: Harrison, New Jersey, a city adjacent to Newark - Middlesex Street [now Angelo Cifelli Drive] (north, third base); South 3rd Street (east, left field); Burlington Avenue (south, right field); South 2nd Street (west, first base); also railroad yards skirting the southeast corner of the property.
• Currently: Industrial plant
• [https://sabr.org/bioproj/park/harrison-park-harrison-nj/ SABR article on the ballpark]
• Meadowbrook Oval aka Meadowbrook Field aka Asylum Oval
• Home of: Newark Bears - International League (1924 - mid-1925) moved to Providence; moved back for 1926; Newark Dodgers - Negro National League (1934–35)
• Location: South Orange Avenue (southwest, third base); buildings and South 12th Street (southeast, first base); asylum and Fairmount Cemetery (north, center field)
• Currently: West Side High School
• [https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3814nm.g3814nm_g05571193003/?sp=78&st=image&r=-0.212,-0.646,1.423,2.716,270 Sanborn map showing faint outline of the ballpark, 1930]
• Ruppert Stadium originally Davids' Stadium, then Bears Stadium
• Home of:
• Newark Bears - International League (1926-1949)
• Newark Eagles - Negro National League (1936-1948)
• also the site of some major league games from time to time
• Other sports: Newark Bears - first American Football League (1926)
• Location: Hamburgh (or Hamburg) Place (now Wilson Avenue) (northeast, home plate); Avenue L and Heller & Merz Company buildings (southeast, left field); East Kinney Street (southwest, center field); Avenue K (northwest, right field)
• Currently: Industrial plant
• [https://sabr.org/bioproj/park/ruppert-stadium-newark-nj/ SABR article on the ballpark]
• Newark Schools Stadium originally City Field
• Home of: Newark Stars - Eastern Colored League (1926 part season)
• Location: North 10th Street (northwest); 1st Avenue West (southwest); Roseville Avenue / North 8th Street (southeast); Bloomfield Avenue (northeast) [per Lowry]
• Currently: rebuilt in 2011
• [https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3814nm.g3814nm_g05571192004/?sp=46&st=image&r=-0.209,-0.644,1.419,2.707,270 Sanborn map showing embryonic facilities, 1920]
• Sprague Field aka General Electric Field
• Home of Newark Browns - East-West League (1932) / independent other years
• Location: in Bloomfield, New Jersey - Bloomfield Avenue (northeast); LaFrance Avenue (southeast); Floyd Avenue (southwest); Arlington Avenue (west and northwest) - stated as first base line, third base line, left field, and center and right fields, respectively
• Currently: Felton Playground
• [https://sabr.org/bioproj/park/sprague-field-bloomfield-nj/ SABR article on the ballpark]
• Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium
• Home of: Newark Bears - Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (1999-2013)
• Location: 450 Broad Street, Newark (west, first base); Division Street (north, third base); Bridge Street (south, right field); Highway 21 and Passaic River (east, left field)
• Currently: demolished, land being redeveloped

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• Sports in Newark, New Jersey
• Lists of baseball parks

• Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
• Michael Benson, Ballparks of North America, McFarland, 1989.
• Marc Okkonen, The Federal League of 1914-1915: Baseball's Third Major League, SABR, 1989.

• [http://www.luckyshow.org/baseball/trunkmakers.htm Summary of professional baseball in Newark]
• [https://www.njsportsheroes.com/bbnewark.html Baseball in Newark]
• [http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=53 Summary of Newark Bears baseball]
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020802030002/http://www.digitalballparks.com/TripleAIndex.html Summary of International League ballparks]}}
• [http://www.baseball-fever.com/archive/index.php/t-67365.html Summary of Negro Leagues ballparks]
• [https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3814nm.g3814nm_g05571189204/?sp=27&st=image&r=-0.09,-0.535,1.179,2.25,270 Sanborn map showing Wright Street Grounds, 1892]
• [https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3814nm.g3814nm_g05571190905/?sp=51&st=image&r=-0.216,-0.651,1.433,2.734,270 Sanborn map showing Electric Park, formerly Shooting Park, now Vailsburg Park, as it was in 1909]

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