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List of American Association (1902–1997) stadiums

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This is a list of American Association stadiums used during the league's existence from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997. It does not include stadiums used by teams of the American Association (AA) in existence from 1882 to 1891, which was a major league.

North AmeriCare Park, home of the Buffalo Bisons, now in the International League
Nicollet Park, former home of the Minneapolis Millers

There are 42 stadiums known to have been used by the league located among 26 municipalities. Of the stadiums with known opening dates, the oldest to have hosted AA games was Borchert Field (1888), home of the Milwaukee Brewers; the newest was Zephyr Field (1997), home of the New Orleans Zephyrs. The highest known seating capacity was 62,000 at Superdome, the New Orleans Pelicans home, though it was actually designed for football. The highest capacity of a stadium designed for baseball was 21,698 at Metropolitan Stadium, where the Minneapolis Millers played their home games. The stadium with the lowest known capacity was Central Athletic Park, home of the Columbus Senators, which seated only 3,000.

Stadiums

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Name Team(s) Location State Opened Capacity Ref(s)
All Sports Stadium † Oklahoma City 89ers Oklahoma City Oklahoma 1958 15,000 [1]
Armory Park Toledo Mud Hens Toledo Ohio 1897 6,900 [2]
Association Park Kansas City Cowboys, Kansas City Blues Kansas City Missouri 1903 10,000 [3]
Borchert Field[a] Milwaukee Brewers Milwaukee Wisconsin 1888 13,000 [4]
Bosse Field Evansville Triplets Evansville Indiana 1915 5,300 [5]
Busch Stadium[b] Houston Buffs Houston Texas 1928 11,717 [6]
Cardinal Stadium[c] † Louisville Colonels, Louisville Redbirds Louisville Kentucky 1957 33,500 [7]
Central Athletic Park Columbus Senators Columbus Ohio 1896 3,000 [8]
Downtown Ball Park[d] St. Paul Apostles Saint Paul Minnesota 1903 [9]
Eagles Stadium[e] Dallas/Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers Dallas Texas 1924 10,500 [10]
Eclipse Park Louisville Colonels Louisville Kentucky 1902 3,500 [11]
Exposition Park Kansas City Blues Kansas City Missouri 4,000 [12]
Herschel Greer Stadium † Nashville Sounds Nashville Tennessee 1978[13] 11,500 [14]
Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium[f] † Omaha Cardinals, Omaha Dodgers, Omaha Royals Omaha Nebraska 1948 17,500 [15]
LaGrave Field[g] Fort Worth Cats, Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers Fort Worth Texas 1926 12,000 [16]
Lawrence–Dumont Stadium[h] Wichita Braves, Wichita Aeros Wichita Kansas 1934 8,500 [17]
League Park IV[i] Cleveland Bearcats/Spiders Cleveland Ohio 1910 23,000 [18][19]
Lexington Park St. Paul Saints/Apostles Saint Paul Minnesota 1897 10,000 [20]
Privateer Park New Orleans Zephyrs New Orleans Louisiana 1979[21] 5,000 [22]
Metropolitan Stadium Minneapolis Millers Bloomington Minnesota 1956 21,698 [23]
Midway Stadium St. Paul Saints Saint Paul Minnesota 1957 13,050 [24]
Mile High Stadium[j] Denver Bears/Zephyrs Denver Colorado 1948[25] 19,000 [26]
Minnehaha Driving Park[k] Minneapolis Millers Minneapolis Minnesota [27]
Municipal Stadium[l] Kansas City Blues Kansas City Missouri 1923 17,476 [28]
Neil Park Columbus Senators, Columbus Red Birds Columbus Ohio 1905 11,000 [29]
Nicollet Park Minneapolis Millers Minneapolis Minnesota 1896 10,000 [30]
North AmeriCare Park[m] † Buffalo Bisons Buffalo New York 1988 19,500 [31]
Owen J. Bush Stadium[n] Indianapolis Indians Indianapolis Indiana 1931[32] 12,934 [33]
Parkway Field[o] Louisville Colonels Louisville Kentucky 1923 13,496 [34]
Principal Park[p] † Iowa Cubs Des Moines Iowa 1992 10,500 [35]
Red Bird Stadium[q] Columbus Red Birds Columbus Ohio 1932 14,500 [36]
Robin Roberts Stadium[r] Springfield Redbirds Springfield Illinois 1925 4,500 [37]
Sec Taylor Stadium[s] Iowa Oaks/Cubs Des Moines Iowa 1947 8,000 [38]
Superdome[t] New Orleans Pelicans New Orleans Louisiana 1975[39] 62,000 [40]
Swayne Field[u] Toledo Mud Hens/Iron Men, Toledo Sox Toledo Ohio 1909 12,000 [41]
Oiler Park[v] Tulsa Oilers Tulsa Oklahoma 1934[42] 7,200 [43]
Victory Field † Indianapolis Indians Indianapolis Indiana 1996 12,500 [44]
War Memorial Stadium[w] Buffalo Bisons Buffalo New York 1937 45,000 [45]
Washington Street Park (East) Indianapolis Indians Indianapolis Indiana [46]
Washington Street Park (West)[x] Indianapolis Indians Indianapolis Indiana 5,000 [47]
Watt Powell Park[y] Charleston Senators[z] Charleston West Virginia 1949[48] 5,500 [49]
Zephyr Field[aa] † New Orleans Zephyrs Metairie Louisiana 1997 10,000 [50]
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Metairie, Louisiana
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Louisville, Kentucky
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Indianapolis, Indiana
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Houston, Texas
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Evansville, Indiana
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Des Moines, Iowa
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Denver, Colorado
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Dallas, Texas
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Columbus, Ohio
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Charleston, West Virginia
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Buffalo, New York
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Bloomington, Minnesota
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American Association stadium locations

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Notes

  1. [a]
    Borchert Field was also known as Athletic Park (1888–1894) and Brewer Field (1902–1927).
  2. [b]
    Busch Stadium was also known as Buffalo Stadium (1928–1952).
  3. [c]
    Cardinal Stadium was also known as Fairgrounds Stadium (1957–1982).
  4. [d]
    Downtown Ball Park was also known as the Pill Box.
  5. [e]
    Eagles Stadium was also known as Steer Stadium (1925–1938), Rebel Field (1939–1948), and Burnett Field (1949–1964).
  6. [f]
    Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium was also known as Omaha Baseball Stadium (1948–1955) and Municipal Stadium (1956–1963).
  7. [g]
    LaGrave Field was originally known as Panther Park (1926–1928).
  8. [h]
    Lawrence–Dumont Stadium was also known as Wichita Stadium (1950–1957) and Lawrence Stadium (1958–1977).
  9. [i]
    League Park IV was also known as Somers Park (1910–1915) and Dunn Field (1916–1927).
  10. [j]
    Mile High Stadium was also known as Bears Stadium (1948–1968).
  11. [k]
    Minnehaha Driving Park was used for Sunday games by the Minneapolis Millers.
  12. [l]
    Municipal Stadium was also known as Muehlebach Stadium (1923–1936), Ruppert Stadium (1937–1942), and Blues Stadium (1943–1954).
  13. [m]
    North AmeriCare Park was also known as Pilot Field (1988–1995), Dunn Tire Park (2000–2008), Coca-Cola Field (2009–2018), and is now called Sahlen Field.
  14. [n]
    Owen J. Bush Stadium was also known as Perry Stadium (1931–1941) and Victory Field (1942–1966).
  15. [o]
    Parkway Field was also known as Colonels Field.
  16. [p]
    Principal Park was also known as Sec Taylor Stadium II (1992–2004).
  17. [q]
    Red Bird Stadium was also known as Jets Stadium (1955–1970) and Franklin County Stadium (1977–1984) before being renamed Cooper Stadium (1984).
  18. [r]
    Robin Roberts Stadium was originally known as Lanphier Park.
  19. [s]
    Sec Taylor Stadium was also known as Riverside Park (1947–1948), Pioneer Memorial Stadium (1949–1958), and Sec Taylor Stadium I.
  20. [t]
    Superdome was also known as Louisiana Superdome (1975–2011) and Mercedes-Benz Superdome (2011–2021) before being renamed Caesars Superdome (2021).
  21. [u]
    Swayne Field was also known as Mudhen Field.
  22. [v]
    was also known as Tulsa County Stadium (1934), Texas League Park (1934–1961), before being renamed Driller Park (1977).
  23. [w]
    War Memorial Stadium was also known as The Rockpile.
  24. [x]
    West Washington Street Park was also known as Riverside Park.
  25. [y]
    Watt Powell Park was also known as Exhibition Park.
  26. [z]
    The Toledo Mud Hens played at Watt Powell Park for the remainder of the 1952 season after moving to Charleston and becoming the Charleston Senators.
  27. [aa]
    Zephyr Field was also known as Shrine on Airline (2017–2020) before being renamed Gold Mine on Airline (2021).

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