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Palace of the Fans

Cincinnati · 1902–1911 · config 1911

Favors hitters

(+0.1 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 360′ · SLF 385′ · LFA 418′ · LC 418′ · CF 400′ · RC 375′ · RFA 375′ · SRF 404′ · RF 450′

Walls LF 10′ · LC 20′ · CF 20′ · RC 20′ · RF 4′

Ornate grandstand — opera-house baseball

Average foul ground

Capacity 12,000

Opera-house columns and a diamond dressed for show.

Overhead diagram

Palace of the Fans overhead schematicLF 360′SLF 385′LFA 418′LC 418′CF 400′RC 375′RFA 375′SRF 404′RF 450′10′ wall20′ wall20′ wall20′ wall4′ wallAverage foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

Wrecking Palace of the Fans ballpark, Cincinnati (baseball) LCCN2014689894.jpg
Wrecking Palace of the Fans ballpark, Cincinnati (baseball) LCCN2014689894.jpg · Bain News Service, publisher / Wikimedia Commons · 2014 · Public domain

About this park

Palace of the Fans lived up to the name — ornate Cincinnati baseball before Crosley, with a hitters' lean in the book and architecture that tried to look like a theater. It bridged wooden eras into the modern Crosley chapter.