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Huntington Avenue Grounds

Baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, USA (1901-12)

Huntington Avenue Grounds

Summary

Baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, USA (1901-12)

FieldValue
nameHuntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds
nicknameHuntington Avenue Grounds
imageWorldSeries1903-640.jpg
image_size250px
locationBoston, Massachusetts
coordinates
ownerBoston Red Sox
broke_groundMarch 9, 1901
openedMay 8, 1901
closedAfter 1911 season
demolished1912
tenantsBoston Red Sox (MLB) 1901–1911
seating_capacity11,500
dimensionsLeft Field – 350 ft
Left-Center – 440 ft
Center Field – 530 ft (1901), 635 ft (1908)
Right Field – 280 ft (1901), 320 ft (1908)
Backstop – 60 ft

Left-Center – 440 ft Center Field – 530 ft (1901), 635 ft (1908) Right Field – 280 ft (1901), 320 ft (1908) Backstop – 60 ft

Huntington Avenue Grounds was a baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, and the first home field for the Boston Red Sox, known as the "Boston Americans" before 1908, from to . The stadium, built for $35,000 (equivalent to $ million in ), was on what is now Northeastern University, at the time across the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks from the South End Grounds, home of the Boston Braves.

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The stadium was the site of the first World Series game between the modern American and National Leagues in 1903, and also saw the first perfect game in the modern era, thrown by Cy Young on May 5, 1904. The playing field was built on a former circus lot and was extremely large by modern standards - 530 ft to center field, later expanded to 635 ft in 1908. It had many quirks not seen in modern baseball stadiums, including patches of sand in the outfield where grass would not grow, and a tool shed in deep center field that was in play.

Boston Policemen pose in dugout at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, 1903 World Series. Michael T. "Nuf Ced" McGreevy Collection, Boston Public Library

The park was built on a large plot of land bounded by Huntington Avenue (northwest, left field); Rogers (now Forsyth) Street (southwest, third base); railroad tracks (southeast, first base); and various buildings to the east (right field).

The Huntington Avenue Grounds was demolished after the Red Sox left at the beginning of the 1912 season to play at Fenway Park. The Cabot Center, an indoor athletic venue belonging to Northeastern University, has stood on the Huntington Grounds' footprint since 1954. A plaque and a statue of Cy Young were erected in 1993 where the pitchers mound used to be, commemorating the history of this ballpark in what is now called World Series Way. Meanwhile, a plaque on the side of the Cabot Center (1956) marks the former location of the left field foul pole.

The Cabot facility itself is barely over a quarter mile away to the southwest from another, still-standing Boston area sports facility of that era, Matthews Arena (built in 1910), the original home of the NHL's Boston Bruins when they started play in 1924.

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