Ballpark
Bennett Park
Detroit · 1901–1911 · config 1911
Favors hitters
(+0.1 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 295′ · SLF 330′ · LFA 420′ · LC 420′ · CF 490′ · RC 386′ · RFA 386′ · SRF 374′ · RF 440′
Walls LF 8′ · LC 6′ · CF 16′ · RC 12′ · RF 6′
Wooden Tigers park at Michigan & Trumbull before Navin Field
Average foul ground
Capacity 14,000
Michigan and Trumbull before the concrete Corner arrived.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
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About this park
Bennett Park was Detroit's early American League home before Navin Field / Tiger Stadium rose on the same ground. Wooden stands, a hitters' lean, and dead-ball-era baseball in a neighborhood that would become the Corner. The footprint later became legend under steel and concrete.