List of Jewel Box Baseball Parks - Jewel Box Ballparks By City

Jewel Box Ballparks By City

Here is a list of the Jewel Box ballparks, their dates of use as a Major League Baseball facility^ (see note below), and some indication of their remnants, if known:

Boston

• Braves Field (late 1915–1952) – Right field pavilion and concourse, as well as ticket office, survive as part of Nickerson Field on the campus of Boston University.
• Fenway Park (1912–present) – Still standing as of 2012.

Brooklyn

• Ebbets Field (1913–1957) – Plaque marking its location. Apartment building on site.

Chicago

• Comiskey Park (mid 1910–1990) – Outline of batters boxes with replica of home plate. U. S. Cellular Field parking lot on site.
• Wrigley Field (built 1914; MLB facility 1916–present) – Still standing as of 2012.

Cincinnati

• Crosley Field (1912-mid 1970) – Plaque and some old grandstand chair seats. Office park on site.

Cleveland

• League Park (1910–1946) – Ticket office, part of grandstand wall, and ballfield. (Remnant of first-base grandstand was razed ca. 2005).

Detroit

• Tiger Stadium (1912–1999) – Abandoned for MLB but stood for nearly nine years. Demolition began summer 2008. After plans for saving the field and the dugout-to-dugout portion of the stands fell through in June 2009, demolition continued, and was completed at the end of the year. The ballfield and outfield flagpole remain in place.

New York

• Polo Grounds (mid 1911–1957, 1962–1963) – Plaque marking its location, along with parts of old stairway down from Speedway. Apartment building on site.
• Yankee Stadium (1923–1973, 1976–2008; significantly altered 1974–1975) – Demolition completed in 2010 for public parkland.

Philadelphia

• Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium (1909–1970) – Plaque marking location. Church on site.

Pittsburgh

• Forbes Field (mid 1909-mid 1970) – Parts of outfield walls and the flagpole exist at the original site; another part of the outfield wall now stands at the Pirates' current home of PNC Park; and home plate is preserved under lucite in Posvar Hall, a University of Pittsburgh academic building standing on most of the stadium site. (The original location of home plate is in a women's restroom at Posvar Hall; the preserved home plate was moved so that all visitors could view it.)

St. Louis

• Sportsman's Park (1909-early 1966) – Ballfield as part of Herbert Hoover Boys' Club on site.

Washington

• Griffith Stadium (1911–1961) – Plaque. Howard University hospital on site.

^Unless otherwise noted, first and last years listed include entire baseball season in that year.

Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, which opened in 1895 (closed mid-1938) and was the first park to be built with steel and brick rather than wood as its primary materials, is considered a forerunner of the "Jewel Box" ballparks.