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Exhibition Stadium

Toronto · 1977–1989 · config 1989

Favors hitters

(+0.1 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 330′ · LFA 375′ · LC 375′ · CF 410′ · RC 375′ · RFA 375′ · RF 330′

Walls LF 12′ · CF 12′ · RF 12′

Football-first lakefront — awkward baseball sightlines

Average foul ground

Capacity 43,737

A football stadium pretending to host baseball by the lake.

Overhead diagram

Exhibition Stadium overhead schematicLF 330′LFA 375′LC 375′CF 410′RC 375′RFA 375′RF 330′12′ wall12′ wall12′ wallAverage foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

Exhibition Stadium Exterior Gate 12 July 1998.jpg
Exhibition Stadium Exterior Gate 12 July 1998.jpg · TorontoGuy79 / Wikimedia Commons · 1998 · CC BY-SA 4.0

About this park

Exhibition Stadium was Toronto's open-air football hybrid — cold Aprils, crazy foul territory, and Blue Jays baseball before the SkyDome. It leaned hitter on warm nights and miserable on others. The chapter ended when the roof arrived.