title: List of baseball parks in Providence, Rhode Island
text: # List of baseball parks in Providence, Rhode Island
  
  This is a list of venues used for professional and some amateur baseball in Providence, Rhode Island. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.
  
  ## Adelaide Park (I)
  
      Home of: National Association neutral site in 1875, for games involving New Haven, Boston, Hartford and Brooklyn
      Location: Broad, Hamilton and Sackett Streets; Adelaide and Elmwood Avenues
      Currently: residential
  
  ## name of ballpark unknown
  
      Home of: Providence - League Alliance (1877)
  
  ## Messer Park
  
      Home of: Providence Grays National League (1878-1885) / Eastern League (1886 partial)
      Location: Messer Street (east, third base and left field), Willow Street (north, home plate); Wood Street (south, center field); Ropes (now Ellery) Street (west, first base and right field). Some sources name Hudson Street as the north boundary; others say High (now Westminster) Street, or "near" High Street. Photographic evidence indicates Willow.
      Currently: residential
  
  ## Adelaide Park (II)
  
      Home of:
         Providence Grays - Eastern Association (1891 disbanded during season)
         Providence Grays / Clamdiggers - Eastern League (1892-1903)
      Location: west of Broad Street, part of the former Park Garden, a large park bounded by what are now Broad, Sumter, Niagara and Sackett Streets. (Overlaps the first Adelaide Park block.)
      Currently: residential
  
  ## Melrose Park
  
      Providence Grays - Eastern League (1904-1911) / International League (1912-1917) Eastern League (1918 - mid-1925 disbanded)
      Location: Longfellow Street (north, third base); Melrose Street (east, left field); railroad tracks and Roger Williams Avenue (south, right field); buildings and Elmwood Avenue (west, first base) [per linked map]
      Currently: housing and DMV road test area
  
  ## Weston Field
  
      Home of: Providence Grays - Eastern League (1918-?)
      Location: Cranston, Rhode Island - otherwise unknown
  
  ## Kinsley Park
  
      Home of:
         Providence Grays IL (mid-1925 to end of season) moved from and to Newark Bears
         Providence Rubes / Grays - Eastern League (1926 - mid-1930 disbanded
      Location: Kinsley Avenue (north, third base); Acorn Street (west, first base) - opposite Nicholson File Company (a tool maker)
      Currently: industrial
  
  ## Cranston Stadium
  
      Home of:
         Providence Chiefs / Grays - New England League (1946- mid-1949 - league disbanded)
         Rhode Island Gulls - NECBL (1999-2000)
      Location: Cranston, Rhode Island - Cranston Stadium complex - Peerless Street (northwest, left and center fields); Crescent Avenue (northeast, center and right fields); Midwood Street (east, right field and first base); football stadium (southwest, home plate and third base). Flint Avenue (south) and Jordan Avenue (southwest) border the football stadium.
  