List of baseball parks in Denver


This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Denver, Colorado, United States. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.

Broadway Grounds (I)

Home of

  • First recorded baseball game in Denver - McNeils 20, Hulls 7
  • Denver Brown Stockings

Location

East 16th Avenue ; Lincoln Street ; East Colfax Avenue aka East 15th Avenue ; North Broadway ; catty-corner to the northwest of the state capitol

Currently

Part of the Civic Center

Larimer Street Baseball Park

Home of

Location

Larimer Street ; 32nd Street ; Blake Street ; 33rd Street. About 10 blocks northeast of the eventual site of Coors Field

Currently

Commercial/industrial

River Front Park

Home of

Denver Mountaineers – Western League / Western Association

Location

Plot of land roughly bounded by 16th Street ; 17th Street ; Bassett Street ; and the Platte River. Part of what is now Commons Park

Athletic Park or Broadway Park (II)

Home of

Location

North Broadway ; Cherry Creek ; West 7th Avenue ; South 14th Street ; West 6th Avenue - Denver Health Medical Center across Acoma to the west

Currently

Hotel and parking garage

Merchants Park

Home of

Location

600 South Broadway ; Virginia Avenue ; Bannock Street ; Dakota Avenue. Near Alameda Avenue ; location also given as Exposition Avenue and Broadway

Current use

Site of Broadway Plaza shopping center and business complex

[Mile High Stadium]

Originally Bears Stadium

Home of

Location

2755 West 17th Avenue ; Elliot Street ; West 20th Street ; Clay Street

Previously

City dump

Currently

Parking lot for Sports Authority Field, which overlaps the old site in the southwest portion

[Coors Field]

Home of

Colorado Rockies – NL

Location

2001 Blake Street ; 20th Street ; railroad tracks, then Wewatta Street ; 22nd Street

Previously

Denver Pacific Railroad Station and Union Pacific Railroad buildings