Ballpark

Exposition Park III

Pittsburgh · 1901–1915 · config 1915

Configuration year

Favors hitters

(+0.0 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 400′ · SLF 393′ · LFA 475′ · LC 475′ · CF 515′ · RC 439′ · RFA 439′ · SRF 393′ · RF 380′

Walls LF 3′ · LC 10′ · CF 10′ · RC 20′ · RF 10′

Flood-prone river park before Forbes Field

Average foul ground

Capacity 16,000

River floods and Pirates baseball before Forbes opened uphill.

Overhead diagram

Photograph

Exposition Park Pittsburgh 1903.jpg · Boston Public Library / Wikimedia Commons · 1903 · CC BY 2.0

About this park

Exposition Park hosted early Pirates baseball before Forbes — a river-side yard with a hitters' lean in the book. Forbes Field's cavern came next.