Oriole Park

Oriole Park is the name of several former major league and minor league baseball parks in Baltimore, Maryland.

It is also half the name of the current downtown home of the Baltimore Orioles, its full name being Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

All of the early incarnations of "Oriole Park" were built within a few blocks of each other.

The first field called Oriole Park was built on the southwest corner of Sixth Street / Huntington Avenue (later renamed 25th Street) (north); and York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) (east). The park was also variously known as Huntington Avenue Park and American Association Park. It was the first home of the major league American Association professional baseball franchise called the Baltimore Orioles, during 1882–1889.

In 1890, the Orioles club moved four blocks north and opened a new Oriole Park, (retroactively tagged as Oriole Park II). It was on a roughly rectangular block bounded by 10th Street (later renamed 29th Street) (north); York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) (east); 9th Street (later renamed 28th Street) (south); and Barclay Street (west). This field in the then suburban village of Waverly, a community then just outside the northeast city limits of Baltimore at North Avenue (then Boundary Avenue), from 1816, served as the home of the A.A. Orioles entry only briefly, during 1890 and for the first month of the spring season in 1891. The club's reason for abandoning the park after barely more than one full season is unknown.

The club then opened Union Park (also sometimes called Oriole Park - i.e. also retroactively tagged Oriole Park III) in early 1891 also south of Waverly at Greenmount Avenue and Sixth Street (also Huntington Avenue, later today known as 25th Street) and operated there for the rest of the 1890s, when the team joined the National League of 1876, when the competing American Association folded, and producing the first glory years of the Orioles of the "Gay Nineties". Despite their great success in the 90s, with three straight championships and the old "Temple Cup" and several runner-up finishes, Baltimore was unceremoniously dropped when the League contracted from 12 down to 8 teams in 1900.

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