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This is a list of venues used for professional and some amateur baseball in Los Angeles, California, United States, and surrounding neighborhoods and cities such as Hollywood, Vernon, Venice and Anaheim.

Professional

Athletic Park

Los Angeles Seraphs/Angels - California League (1892-1893 part)

Location: Seventh Street (south); Alameda Street (west); Mateo Street (east); Palmetto Street a block's width away to the north.

Ballpark within Chutes Park opened around 1895.

Home of:

Los Angeles Angels - California League (1901-02) / Pacific Coast League (1903-1910)

Location: north-center edge of the amusement park which was bounded by Grand Avenue (west), Main Street (east), Washington Boulevard (north, which bordered third base line), 21st Street (south)

Currently: LA Mart and parking lots

Prager Park

Home of: Los Angeles - Pacific National League (1903) - disbanded Aug 21

Location: Grand Avenue (west), Washington Boulevard (south), Hill Street (east) - "across the street from Chutes Park"

Maier Park

Though nominally Los Angeles, in order to avoid conflicts with the PCL the teams played all their games at the parks of the other teams: Long Beach, Pasadena, Redondo and Santa Ana

Home of:

Vernon Tigers - Pacific Coast League (1909-1912, 1915-1925)

Los Angeles Maiers - Southern California Trolley League (1910 only)

Los Angeles McCormicks - Southern California Trolley League (1910 only)

Location: in Vernon

Washington Park

Home of:

Los Angeles Angels - Pacific Coast League (1911-late 1925)

Venice Tigers - PCL (1913-1914) (selected games)

Location: Address listed as 218 West Washington Boulevard. On a large block bounded by Washington (north), Main (east), 21st (south), Hill Street (west), overlaying Chutes Park site

Currently: LA Mart and parking lots

Maier Park

Home of: Venice Tigers - PCL (1913-1914)

Location: in the Venice district - southwest corner of Virginia Avenue and Washington Boulevard (now South Venice Boulevard and Abbot Kinney Boulevard) - stands were physically moved from the one city to the other

Wrigley Field

Home of:

Los Angeles Angels - Pacific Coast League (late 1925-1957)

Hollywood Stars - PCL (1926-1935, 1938)

Los Angeles California Angels - American League (1961 only)

Location: Avalon Boulevard (east, right field); 41st Street (north, left field); 42nd Place (south, first base); San Pedro Street (west, third base) - about 1½ miles straight south of Washington Park

Currently: Gilbert W. Lindsay Community Center

Gilmore Stadium

Home of: Hollywood Stars - PCL (while awaiting completion of Gilmore Field)

Location: west of Gilmore Field

Currently: CBS Television City

Gilmore Field

Home of: Hollywood Stars - PCL (1939-57)

Location: south side of Beverly Boulevard; between Genesee Avenue and The Grove Drive; between Gilmore Stadium (west) and Pan-Pacific Auditorium (east)

Home plate: northwest corner

Currently: parking lot for CBS Television City

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Home of: Los Angeles Dodgers - National League (1958-61)

Location: 3911 South Figueroa Street

Dodger Stadium also known as Chavez Ravine (by the Angels only)

Home of:

Los Angeles Dodgers - National League (1962-present)

Los Angeles/California Angels - American League (1962-65)

Also used as a neutral site in the 2020 MLB postseason

Location: 1000 Vin Scully Avenue (orig. Elysian Park Avenue)

Angel Stadium of Anaheim also known as Anaheim Stadium and Edison International Field

Home of: California / Los Angeles Angels - American League (1966-present)

Location: 2000 Gene Autry Way; in Anaheim

Amateur

Anteater Ballpark

Home of: UC Irvine Anteaters baseball (2002–present)

Location: On the campus of the University of California, Irvine in the Orange County city of that name.

Bovard Field

Home of: USC Trojans baseball (through 1973)

Location: On the campus of the University of Southern California.

Currently: E.F. Hutton Park (a quadrangle)

Dedeaux Field

Home of: USC Trojans baseball (1974–present)

Location: On the campus of the University of Southern California.

Eddy D. Field Stadium

Home of: Pepperdine Waves baseball (1973–present)

Location: On the campus of Pepperdine University in Malibu.

George C. Page Stadium

Home of: Loyola Marymount Lions baseball (1983–present)

Location: On the campus of Loyola Marymount University.

Jackie Robinson Stadium

Home of: UCLA Bruins baseball (1981–present)

Location: On the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Matador Field

Home of: Cal State Northridge Matadors baseball (1961–present)

Location: On the campus of California State University, Northridge in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Northridge.

Blair Field

Home of: Long Beach State Dirtbags baseball (1993–present)

Location: Recreation Park, Long Beach, CA

Historically: Formerly professional minor league baseball and host of Area Code games.

See also

• Lists of baseball parks

Sources

• Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
• Phil Lowry, Green Cathedrals, several editions.
• Michael Benson, Ballparks of North America, McFarland, 1989.
• Lawrence Ritter, Lost Ballparks, Penguin, 1992.

External links

• Early Angels baseball
• Vernon Tigers
• Sanborn map showing L.A. White Sox Park, 1921

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