Washington Park - Definition and Overview

This article is about the former baseball stadium. Washington Park is also the name of towns in Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina.

Washington Park was a baseball stadium in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, located at 3rd St. and 4th Ave. Three ballparks stood on the site - the first two stood from 1884-1890. The third, which stood from 1898-1912, was the home of the Brooklyn Superbas during that period. The stadium sat 18,800. It consisted of a covered grandstand behind the infield and uncovered stand down the right field line.

Dimensions

• Left Field - 335 ft. (1898), 375.95 ft. (1908), 300 ft. (1914)
• Left Center Field - 500 ft. (1898), 443.5 ft. (1908)
• Center Field - 445 ft. (1898), 424.7 ft. (1908), 400 ft. (1914)
• Right Center Field - 300 ft. (1898)
• Right Field - 215 ft. (1898), 295 ft. (1899), 301.84 ft. (1908), 275 ft. (1914)
• Backstop - 90 ft. (1898), 15 ft. (1908)

Fences

• Left Field to Center Field - 12 ft.
• Right Field - 42 ft. (13 ft. brick fence topped by 29 ft. of canvas)