These private boxes, the first luxury suites in baseball, were at field level with the main grandstand at top.
It had a seating capacity of 6, that included the grandstand from American Park now in the outfield. It was home to the Reds for nine seasons before becoming to small, falling into disrepair and the structure caught fire after the season.
The ballpark some fans still remember today was built between the and seasons. The Palace of the Fans was demolished and replaced with a steel and concrete structure named Redland Field. Fans would arrive at the ballpark and met with a structure featuring a brick facade and seating for 22, inside. The lower deck grandstand stretched from the right field foul pole to homeplate and to the left field foul pole.
An upper deck stretched from homeplate to past the first and third bases. Bleachers were located in right field and came to a point in right-center field becoming known as the sun deck.
The most distinguishing feature of this ballpark was the terrace in front of the left field fence. It was an incline that started 20 feet from the left field wall and gradually increased until it reached the four feet grade at the wall.
The park featured an illustrious grandstand with pillars and columns carved by hand, as well as 19 fashion boxes much like opera boxes and inexpensive field-level seating. Originally named Redland Field and renamed in , Crosley Field was the first Reds ballpark to feature a double-decked grandstand.
The facility, located at the corner of Western Avenue and Findlay Street, was the site of baseball's first night game and hosted Cincinnati's first World Series Championship team. The multipurpose stadium, which could seat approximately 56, fans, was considered state-of-the-art upon its opening in June The facility hosted five pennant winners and three World Series Championship teams. Twenty-six years earlier in , inventor George Cahill had shown off a new portable lighting system.
In , the Reds shared portable lighting equipment with the touring House of David baseball team for a night exhibition. By the mid-thirties, with one in four Americans out of work and the rest employed from nine to five, Larry MacPhail was able to convince Powel Crosley and the minority partners to try night baseball.
On that May night, with 20, onlookers in eager anticipation, FDR threw a switch miles away in Washington and Crosley Field made history and baseball was changed forever. Crosley Field is long gone, but you can visit the area and see plenty reminders of its glorious past. We cover Crosley Field history in considerably more detail here. By the s, the economic growth that Cincinnati was experiencing was all but absent from the warehouses and factories of the west end of town.
The final game at Crosley was played on June 24, After the game, a helicopter transported home plate to the new digs downtown. Crosley would spend the next two years as an auto impound lot and was eventually bulldozed in Riverfront Stadium was the archetypal cookie-cutter stadium, with a circular design that could be configured both for baseball and football in the form of the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Reds were a solid draw at Riverfront, thanks to a winning team in the form of the Big Red Machine, drawing more than two million fans annually for eight consecutive seasons, from through But neither the Reds nor the Bengals were happy with the joint tenancy.
The bullpens were relocated behind the right field wall. With the removal of 14, seats the Reds installed natural grass, replacing the Astroturf. For two seasons Cinergy Field looked like an actual ballpark. During the and seasons fans attending games at Cinergy Field no longer had to stare at empty seats beyond the outfield fence.
The stadium was demolished on December 29, and part of the site is now part of Great American Ball Park. Home of the Big Red Machine of the s. Riverfront Stadium Pictures.
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