Madison Avenue Grounds

Madison Avenue Grounds

Madison Avenue Grounds was a baseball ground located in Baltimore, Maryland. It began as the first enclosed ballpark in Baltimore, and was first used for a professional game in 1871, by a Washington team. [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/PK_BAL01.htm]

The ballpark is best identified as the home to the Maryland club of the National Association, who had a brief fling as a professional club in 1873. Retrosheet differs from Michael Benson's "Baseball Parks of North America", in that Benson states the Maryland club lasted until July 11 at the ballpark. Retrosheet indicates that only one game was played there and that the July 11 game was at Newington Park, the home of the relatively established Lord Baltimore club. The Maryland club, in fact, played only six games as professionals: the first two against Washington, and the last four against their intra-city rivals. [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/PK_BAL01.htm]

The park was also reportedly the home to Baltimore's Union Association entry in 1884, again for only 1 game as the club owners decided the grounds were unfit for use. However, Retrosheet indicates all home games were at the club's Belair Lot field. [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1884/PKL_BAL041884.htm] [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1884/PKL_BAL041884.htm]

James H. Bready, in his book "The Home Team", a history of the Baltimore baseball clubs, places the location (based on old maps) on a block roughly bounded by what is now Madison Avenue (southwest); Boundary Avenue (later North Avenue) (north); Linden Avenue (northeast); and an old, unnamed road (southeast). The location has also been given as "the end of Eutaw Street near the corner of Madison Avenue and North Avenue." Eutaw cuts through what was once the ballpark property.


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