Westport Stadium – Baltimore’s Last Negro League Ballpark

Westport Stadium was Baltimore’s last Negro League ballpark. Located in Westport, a Baltimore neighborhood just south of the intersection of I-95 and I-295, the ballpark was the home field of the 1950 Negro American League Baltimore Elite Giants. Previously, the Elite Giants had played their home games primarily at Bugle Field located in East Baltimore at the…

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Bugle Field – Home of the Baltimore Elite Giants

Bugle Field was located in East Baltimore at the intersection of Federal Street and Edison Highway, just a few blocks south of Baltimore Cemetery and approximately one and a half miles off I-895. In 1912, Edward C. Lastner of the Simpson and Doeller Company (a company that printed can labels), with seed money provided by…

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Searching For The Baltimore Black Sox’s Lost Ballparks

The 1913 Baltimore Black Sox

Just south of Camden Yards are two historic baseball sites, the exact location of which was unknown until November 2013. The first was Maryland Baseball Park, located at the intersection of Bush Street and Russell Street, where the Baltimore Black Sox played from 1921 to 1932. The second was Westport Park, located two blocks south…

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