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Huntington Avenue Grounds | |
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 Interactive map of Huntington Avenue American League Baseball Grounds | |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°20′20″N71°5′20″W / 42.33889°N 71.08889°W /42.33889; -71.08889 |
| Owner | Boston Red Sox |
| Capacity | 11,500 |
| Field size | Left Field – 350 ft Left-Center – 440 ft Center Field – 530 ft (1901), 635 ft (1908) Right Field – 280 ft (1901), 320 ft (1908) Backstop – 60 ft |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | March 9, 1901 |
| Opened | May 8, 1901 |
| Closed | After 1911 season |
| Demolished | 1912 |
| Tenants | |
| Boston Red Sox (MLB) 1901–1911 | |
Huntington Avenue Grounds was abaseball stadium inBoston, Massachusetts, and the first home field for theBoston Red Sox, known as the "Boston Americans" before 1908, from1901 to1911. The stadium, built for $35,000 (equivalent to $1.32 million in 2024), was on what is nowNortheastern University, at the time across theNew York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks from theSouth End Grounds, home of theBoston Braves.
The stadium was the site of the firstWorld Series game between the modernAmerican andNational Leagues in1903, and also saw the firstperfect game in the modern era, thrown by Cy Young on May 5, 1904. The playing field was built on a former circus lot and was extremely large by modern standards - 530 feet (160 m) to center field, later expanded to 635 feet (194 m) in 1908. It had many quirks not seen in modern baseball stadiums, including patches of sand in the outfield where grass would not grow, and a tool shed in deep center field that was in play.
The park was built on a large plot of land bounded byHuntington Avenue (northwest, left field); Rogers (now Forsyth) Street (southwest, third base); railroad tracks (southeast, first base); and various buildings to the east (right field).
The Huntington Avenue Grounds was demolished after the Red Sox left at the beginning of the1912 season to play atFenway Park. TheCabot Center, an indoor athletic venue belonging toNortheastern University, has stood on the Huntington Grounds' footprint since 1954. A plaque and a statue ofCy Young were erected in 1993 where the pitchers mound used to be, commemorating the history of this ballpark in what is now called World Series Way. Meanwhile, a plaque on the side of the Cabot Center (1956) marks the former location of the left field foul pole.
The Cabot facility itself is barely over a quarter mile away to the southwest from another, still-standing Boston area sports facility of that era,Matthews Arena (built in 1910), the original home of the NHL'sBoston Bruins when they started play in 1924.
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