Ballpark
Washington Park III
Brooklyn · 1901–1912 · config 1912
Favors pitchers
(-0.1 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 338′ · SLF 387′ · LFA 415′ · LC 415′ · LCC 443′ · CF 425′ · RC 349′ · RFA 349′ · SRF 313′ · RF 302′
Walls LF 12′ · LC 12′ · CF 8′ · RC 20′ · RF 20′
Superbas' wooden home before Ebbets
Tight foul ground
Capacity 16,000
Brooklyn baseball before Ebbets made the borough a cathedral.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
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About this park
Washington Park was Brooklyn's pre-Ebbets National League home — wooden, pitcher-leaning in the book, neighborhood-close. Ebbets took the torch.