League Park

About League Park

League Park served Cleveland baseball for 55 years, making it one of the longest-tenured ballparks in AL history. Located in the Hough neighborhood, the park had one of baseball's most unusual configurations: the right-field foul line measured only 290 feet — barely adequate for the era — but the wall rose to a towering 60 feet to compensate, creating a unique challenge for hitters and fielders alike. The combination produced some of the strangest caroms in baseball history.

From 1932 onward, the Indians split their schedule between League Park and the massive new Cleveland Municipal Stadium, using the smaller park for most weekday games. This dual-stadium arrangement continued until 1946, when the Indians moved entirely to Municipal Stadium. During this era, Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run at League Park in 1929, and the Indians won their second World Series championship in 1920, with some games played at the Lexington Avenue park.

League Park was eventually demolished, but in a remarkable act of preservation, the original outfield wall still stands as the centerpiece of a restored public park in the Hough neighborhood. The city of Cleveland preserved the wall and some of the original structure, creating a living monument to the dead-ball and live-ball eras of Cleveland baseball.

Fun facts

• The right-field wall was only 290 feet away but rose 60 feet high — the tallest outfield wall in MLB history.
• Cy Young won his 500th career game here before the modern win record era.
• The original outfield wall still stands today as a public park in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood.
• Shoeless Joe Jackson played here as an Indian before the Black Sox scandal.

More historical ballparks

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• Kingdome · Seattle, Washington
• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum · Los Angeles, California
• Memorial Stadium · Baltimore, Maryland
• Metropolitan Stadium · Bloomington, Minnesota