Charles Schwab FieldWerner ParkRosenblatt StadiumVinton Street Park
This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in and around Omaha, Nebraska. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.
Omaha "ball grounds"
Home of: Omaha Mashers or Green Stockings – Northwestern League (1879 – league disbanded during season)
Location: "in Lake's addition, at the northern terminus of the street railway" – somewhere near 18th and Lake Streets – "about 18th and Ohio" [2 blocks south of Locust]
Location: North 20th Street (east, first base); buildings and Locust Street (north, right field); buildings and North 22nd Street (west, left field); Miami Street (south, third base); Maple Street teed into the property on the left field side [per 1890 Sanborn map] – about a mile north-northwest of the site of TD Ameritrade Park
Later: Y.M.C.A. Park, then University Park [University Athletic Club]
Omaha Robin Hoods – WL (1936 part season – moved to Rock Island after ballpark burned)
Location: 2519 South 15th Street (west, third base); Vinton Street (south, first base); buildings and Castelar Street (north, left field); buildings and South 13th Street (east, right field) [per 1901 Sanborn map] – about half a mile north of the site of Rosenblatt Stadium
Location: Council Bluffs, Iowa – West Broadway (north, left field); 35th Street (west, third base); buildings and 34th Street (east, right field); railroad tracks (south, first base) [per city directory]
Location: Deer Park Boulevard (later Grover Street, now Bob Gibson Boulevard) (north, left field); South 13th Street (west, third base); B Street (later Bert Murphy Avenue South) (south, first base); South 10th Street (east, right field); Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo (east and northeast, right and center fields, across 10th Street)
Currently: zoo parking lot; ballpark partially preserved, as "Infield at the Zoo"
Location: 1200 Mike Fahey Street (south, right field); North 13th Street (west, first base); Cuming Street (north, third base); South 10th Street (east, left field)
Location: (Papillion, Nebraska) 12356 Ballpark Way (south, first base); South 126th Street (west, third base); Lincoln Road (north, left field); South 123rd Street (east, right field)
References
Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
Omaha City Directories – various years – via Ancestry.com
Benson, Michael (1989). Ballparks of North America: A Comprehensive Historical Reference to Baseball Grounds, Yards, and Stadiums, 1845 to Present. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN978-0-89950-367-7. OCLC19630055.
