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Feb 23, 2021 · The stadium saw the dawn of a new era with the Negro Leagues opening the door to Blacks playing in Major League Baseball.
Jul 12, 2019 · Now known as J.P. Small Memorial Stadium -- but called Durkee Field (and briefly Red Cap Stadium) in its heyday -- this ballpark housed the short-lived Jacksonville Red Caps in 1938 and from 1941-42. (They would continue playing as Minor League team after World War II.)
James P. Small Memorial is located just west of downtown Jacksonville in the historic Durkeeville African-American neighborhood. Criteria. In order to be included in this list, a ballpark must have been the primary home park to a Major Negro League team for at least one season from 1920–1948.
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.
- Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Al
- League Park, Cleveland, OH
- Hamtramck Stadium, Hamtramck, MI
- Hinchliffe Stadium, Paterson, NJ
- J.P. Small Memorial Stadium, Jacksonville, FL
- Cooper Stadium, Columbus, OH
Still going strong at 110 years old, Rickwood Fieldstill hosts baseball as well as the annual Rickwood Classic, hosted by the Southern League’s Birmingham Barons. In 1920, the Birmingham Black Barons became a charter member of the eight-team Negro Southern League and ascended to the Negro American League in 1937. During the 1920s, Birmingham would ...
Baseball was first played at the site of League Park in 1891, when a wooden ballpark opened for the Cleveland Spiders. The original League Park to occupy the site lasted through the 1909 season, when it made way for a new structure that was more reflective of its time. Just as many cities either already had, or were about to do, Cleveland opened a ...
In the midst of a restoration effort, Hamtramck Stadiumoriginally opened in 1930 and was home to a variety of Negro Leagues teams, including the Detroit Stars and Detroit Wolves. Funding for the ballpark’s renovation has come from a variety of sources, as the City of Hamtramck has been working with Smith Group JJR on a development plan for Hamtramc...
Hinchliffe Stadium opened in 1932 and hosted the New York Black Yankees and New York Cubans along the way, but it closed in 1997 and has since fallen into a state of decline. A renovation effort gathered momentum over much of last year, as local officials and developers moved forward with plans to bring the historic ballpark back into working condi...
The former Durkee Fieldhosted the Negro American League’s Jacksonville Red Caps in two different stints: 1938 and 1941-42. Located in the Durkeeville area of Jacksonville, Durkee Field also hosted minor-league baseball and spring-training games for both MiLB and MLB teams. It had a mixed track record, to be sure. This was where Jacksonville officia...
We’re not talking about a rich and long history of Negro Leagues play at Cooper Stadium, but it did serve as the home of the Columbus Blue Birds of the Negro National League in the first half of 1933. The team did not do well on the field or at the gate (despite the presence of Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe on the roster) and eventually ended up in C...
J. P. Small Memorial Stadium is a baseball park in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located in the Durkeeville community in northwest Jacksonville. Constructed in 1912 and rebuilt in 1936, it was the city's first municipal recreation field, and served as its primary baseball park before the construction of Wolfson Park in 1954.
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The Negro leagues once sat at the center of Black communities across America. Yet today, more than a hundred years after their inception, remnants of only six surviving Negro league facilities still exist: Rickwood Field (Birmingham Black Barons), League Park (Cleveland Spiders), Hinchliffe Stadium (New York Black Yankees and New York Cubans, a ...
