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] Currently residential Omaha Baseball Grounds Home of 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] Currently residential Charles Street Park Home of Omaha Omahogs or Indians – Western Association (1894–mid-1895) Location Charles Street; 17th Street (east); 18th Street (west) Afterward converted to bicycle race track after ball club moved to Fair Grounds Currently residential and commercial Fair Grounds Home of Omaha Omahogs or Indians – WA (part of 1895, after leaving Charles Street – then moved to Denver) Location Ames Avenue between 16th Street and 20th Street Currently residential Omaha Base Ball Park or Ames Avenue Park Home of Omaha Omahogs or Babes – WL (1898 part season – moved to St. Joseph) Location Ames Avenue (south, home plate); 24th Street (east); 25th Street (west) – "where the Prairie Park addition is now located" Later another Y.M.C.A. Park Currently commercial businesses Omaha Baseball Park
Home of 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 Currently residential Ballpark at Lake Manawa Home of Council Bluffs Bluffers – Iowa–South Dakota League (1903 part season) Location near Lake Manawa, south of Council Bluffs, Iowa Currently Lake Manawa State Park American Legion Park or Broadway Park Home of 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] Currently commercial businesses Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium orig. Omaha Baseball Park or Municipal Stadium Home of 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" Charles Schwab Field Omaha orig. TD Ameritrade Park Omaha Home of 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) Werner Park Home of 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)
See also Lists of baseball parks
References Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993. Omaha City Directories – various years – via Ancestry.com
External links Sanborn map showing the 20th Street ballpark as of 1890 - rotated to orient north Sanborn map showing most of the 15th Street ballpark as of 1901 Sanborn map showing part of the 15th Street ballpark as of 1901 A 1964 thesis on Omaha baseball history Nebraska ballparks Early Omaha ballparks Charles Street park Some pictures of Rourke Park Western League Rourke Park