LEAGUE PARK

Cleveland Indians (MLB) (1901-1946) Cleveland Spiders (MLB) (1891-1899) Cleveland Buckeyes (NAL) (1943-1948) Cleveland Rams (NFL) (1937, 1942, (1944-1945)

League Park was a baseball stadium located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was home to the National League Cleveland Spiders, the American League Cleveland Indians and the Cleveland Buckeyes of the Negro American League. It was located at the northeast corner of Lexington Avenue and E. 66th Street.

Today the site is a public park. A small section of the exterior brick facade (along the first-base side) still stands, as well as the old ticket office behind what was the right field corner. The last remnant of the grandstand, crumbling and presumably unsafe, was taken down ca. 2002 as part of a renovation process to the decaying playground.

The park is currently slated for a massive renovation/rebuild that will restore it to its original state.

A vintage baseball club, the Cleveland Buckeyes, was supposed to begin play at League Park in 2009 but has been stopped as they wait for the money to pay for the new field.

Unused 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" b&w postcard.

Photographed and produced by Richard Arthur, Columbus, OH.