Home Fields
The Giants originally played at Giants Park the first month and a half of the 1922 season, and occasionally played some games in the 1920s at three nearby parks: Vandeventer Lot II, Easton Street Park and Market Street Park.
The Stars played in Stars Park, located at the southeast corner of Compton and Laclede avenues (38°37′56″N 90°13′34″W / 38.632193°N 90.226014°W / 38.632193; -90.226014), was the primary home baseball park of the Stars from 1922 to 1931. It was completed in mid-season 1922 as one of the few ballparks built expressly for the Negro Leagues. It had a capacity of 10,000 people. The park became famous for its 269 foot left field wall, built to accommodate a trolley car barn. Despite special rules that in some seasons counted home runs hit over the car barn as ground-rule doubles, the park proved very friendly to power hitters over the years.
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