Ballpark
Hilltop Park
New York · 1903–1912 · config 1912
Favors hitters
(+0.1 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 365′ · SLF 365′ · LFA 378′ · LC 378′ · CF 370′ · RC 372′ · RFA 405′ · SRF 378′ · RF 365′
Walls LF 16′ · LC 12′ · CF 3′ · RC 16′ · RF 12′
Highlanders' hilltop — open and unfinished at the edges
Cavernous foul ground
Capacity 17,000
A hilltop lot for the Highlanders — windy and unfinished.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
About this park
Hilltop Park sat on the high ground of Washington Heights — the Highlanders' early home before the Polo Grounds and the Bronx. Wooden stands, a hitters' lean in the library's telling, and a view that earned the nickname. New York American League baseball started here.