TeamNew Orleans Crescent Stars
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana
Closed1957
Capacity13,000
About Pelican Stadium
Home of the Southern Association's white New Orleans Pelicans for 42 years and intermittent host of the Negro Southern League Crescent Stars and barnstorming Negro League teams (the Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, and Birmingham Black Barons all played exhibition dates here). The stadium's existence under Louisiana segregation meant Black fans sat in a separate "colored bleachers" section during white games, but had full run of the ballpark on Negro League dates — making it one of the more visible reminders of how the same physical space could function dramatically differently along racial lines in the Jim Crow South.
Fun facts
- Pelican Stadium's 'colored bleachers' segregated section was eliminated only after the venue's closure in 1957 — too late for Negro League fans to ever see the integrated MLB version of the park.
- Hosted Babe Ruth in a 1924 spring training exhibition with the Yankees.
- Site now occupied by the Fountain Bay Club Apartments and surrounding mixed-use development on Tulane Avenue.
- A historical marker on Tulane Avenue notes the stadium's location and brief baseball legacy.
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