League Park

Surviving fragment of the early-20th-century home of Cleveland baseball

Address 6601 Lexington Avenue

League Park was the home of the Cleveland Indians (and earlier teams) from 1891 to 1946, and the surviving fragment — the brick ticket office, a small section of the original outfield wall, and a re-laid baseball diamond — has been preserved as a small park and museum in the Hough neighbourhood. The dimensions of the original field have been marked on the ground, and the foul lines still meet at home plate.

The site is now used for Little League and amateur games, and there is a free museum in the ticket office that covers Cleveland baseball history from the 1890s to the present. The neighbourhood around the park has been slowly rebuilding from a long decline; the site itself is well kept and safe to visit during daylight.

Open daily; museum hours vary seasonally.

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League Park hosted three World Series, Babe Ruth's 500th home run in 1929, and one of the earliest no-hitters in major league history. The Cleveland Indians moved to Municipal Stadium in 1932 and finally abandoned League Park for good in 1946; the ticket office and a fragment of the outfield wall are all that survived demolition.

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