Crosley Field, Baseball stadium in Cincinnati, United States.
Crosley Field was a baseball stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, that served as home to the Cincinnati Reds and sat in the West End neighborhood near Mill Creek. The facility had brick facades with covered grandstands along the baselines and bleachers in the outfield, with the left field wall only 328 feet (100 meters) and right field 366 feet (112 meters) from home plate.
The ballpark opened in 1912 under the name Redland Field and served as home to the Cincinnati Reds until 1970, when the team moved to the newly built Riverfront Stadium. After closure, the facility was demolished in 1972, and today an industrial building occupies the same site, with only a small commemorative plaque marking the former stadium.
The stadium carried the name of Powel Crosley Jr., a radio pioneer and Reds owner who purchased the facility in 1934 and installed the first night game lights in professional baseball. Fans from the neighborhood could watch through the fences from surrounding housing, and the tight dimensions of the playing field made home runs more common than in other parks.
The stadium was located at the corner of Findlay Street and Western Avenue in western Cincinnati, a working-class neighborhood with tight residential blocks. Visitors reached the site best by streetcar or on foot, and seating ranged from covered upper deck areas to open bleachers along the outfield lines.
During the great flood of 1937, the entire playing field sat under 21 feet (6.4 meters) of water, leaving only the upper grandstand deck visible above the floodwaters. Some players rowed boats across the submerged field and took photographs that later became symbols of the destructive power of the flooding.
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