Ballpark
Columbia Park
Philadelphia · 1901–1908 · config 1908
Favors hitters
(+0.1 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 340′ · SLF 352′ · LFA 392′ · LC 392′ · LCC 440′ · CF 396′ · RC 323′ · RFA 323′ · SRF 290′ · RF 280′
Walls LF 8′ · LC 8′ · CF 8′ · RC 11′ · RF 8′
Wooden Athletics yard before Shibe — modest and temporary by later standards
Cavernous foul ground
Capacity 13,600
Mack's first Philadelphia yard — wooden, modest, and already outgrown.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
About this park
Columbia Park was the Athletics' first Philadelphia home before Shibe — a wooden early-AL yard with a hitters' lean in the book. Connie Mack's clubs played here while the French Renaissance palace on Lehigh was still a plan. Short chapter relative to Shibe; real pennants lived in these years.