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Jun 15, 2020 · The current J.P. Small Memorial Stadium sports the same steel and brick grandstand as when the Red Caps were a tenant; there are also historical markers and a museum at the site. Cooper...
Negro League Ballparks. From 1920 to 1951, the Negro Leagues provided opportunities for black and latino baseball players to play professionally, an opportunity denied them by Major League Baseball's segregationist policies until 1947, the year Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby took the field for the Dodgers and Indians, respectively.
Jul 23, 2020 · Among the ballparks that stand on the same grounds where Black baseball teams once played are Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama; Hamtramck Stadium in Hamtramck, Michigan; Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey; J.P. Small Memorial Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida; Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio; and League Park in Cleveland.
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Apr 19, 2020 · This site has been the location of baseball and other sports for nearly 100 years. The location has been know at different times as Barrs Field, the Myrtle Avenue Ball Park, Joseph H. Durkee Memorial Athletic Field, and since 1980, James P. Small Memorial Stadium.
Apr 2, 2024 · Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama. Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cooper Stadium ~ Columbus, Ohio. 10/20/2021 - How to restore famed Negro Leagues ballpark Cooper Stadium. 6/15/2020 - Ballparks That Live On: Former Negro Leagues ballparks. BallParkBrothers.com.
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Mar 5, 2024 · Thanks in very large part to both civic and private fundraising and gallons of sweat equity, the ballparks in Detroit (Hamtramck), Jacksonville, FL (formerly Durkee Field, now renamed as J.P. Small Memorial Stadium), Cleveland (the beautifully restored League Park), Paterson, New Jersey (Hinchcliffe Stadium) and, of course, the venerable and ...
J.P. Small Memorial Stadium is a former Negro Leagues ballpark in Jacksonville, FL that was home to the Jacksonville Red Caps of the Negro American League and before that of the Negro Southern League. It was known under a number of different names, including Red Cap Stadium, Durkee Field and Barrs Field .
