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/ July 1, 2026
Municipal Stadium stood at 2123 Brooklyn Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, serving the city’s sports fans for nearly five decades under four different names. Originally built in 1923 as Muehlebach Field for $400,000, the park became the heart of Kansas City athletics, hosting minor league
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/ July 1, 2026
Sicks’ Stadium opened on June 15, 1938, in Seattle’s Rainier Valley as the home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. Named after Emil Sick, the Rainier Brewing Company owner who financed its construction, the ballpark originally seated around 11,000 fans and became
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/ June 30, 2026
Roosevelt Stadium stood at Droyer’s Point in Jersey City, New Jersey, as one of the finest minor league ballparks of its era. Built with $1.5 million in federal Works Progress Administration funds and designed by architect Christian H. Ziegler in the Art Deco style, the
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/ June 30, 2026
Washington Park was the collective name for three successive Major League Baseball stadiums built on two adjacent sites in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, near the intersection of Third Street and Fourth Avenue. The grounds took their name from George Washington, whose
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/ June 29, 2026
Feethams was a historic football and cricket ground on Victoria Embankment in Darlington, England. Darlington F.C. made it their home in 1883 and stayed for 120 years, playing their final match there on 3 May 2003. With a capacity of around 8,500, the compact ground
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/ June 29, 2026
Fellows Park was a football stadium located on Hilary Street in Walsall, England, that served as the home of Walsall F.C. for 94 years from 1896 to 1990. Originally known simply as Hilary Street, the ground was renamed in 1930 to honour H.L. Fellows, a
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/ June 27, 2026
Vetch Field was a football stadium on Glamorgan Street, Swansea, Wales, and served as the home of Swansea City A.F.C. — then known as Swansea Town — from the club’s formation in 1912 until 2005. The ground took its name from the vetch legume plant
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/ June 27, 2026
Layer Road was a Football League ground in Colchester, England, that served as home to Colchester United F.C. from 1937 until 2008. Originally built in 1907 for Colchester Town F.C., the stadium stood on a 3.63-acre site and became the beating heart of football in
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/ June 25, 2026
Gay Meadow was a football ground in Abbey Forgate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, that served as the home of Shrewsbury Town F.C. for 97 years, from 1910 until the end of the 2006–07 Football League season. Nestled on the banks of the River Severn with views
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/ June 24, 2026
Cathkin Park was a football ground in Crosshill, Glasgow, that served as home to Third Lanark A.C. from 1903 until the club’s collapse in 1967. Rebuilt in 1904 on the site of the former second Hampden Park, the stadium could accommodate around 50,000 spectators and
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/ June 23, 2026
Lansdowne Road Stadium stood in the Ballsbridge neighbourhood of Dublin 4, Ireland, as one of the most storied sports venues in the world. Founded in 1872 by Henry Dunlop, a Trinity College engineering graduate, the ground was constructed using some 300 cartloads of soil excavated
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/ June 22, 2026
Heysel Stadium opened on 23 August 1930 in the Laeken district of Brussels, designed by architect Joseph Van Neck and inaugurated as the Stade du Centenaire to mark the centenary of the Belgian Revolution. With an original capacity of around 70,000, it served as Belgium’s
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/ June 22, 2026
Ninian Park stood on Sloper Road in the Leckwith area of Cardiff, Wales, serving as the home of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years from 1910 until 2009. Named after Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, who provided the financial guarantee that made the ground possible, it
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/ June 21, 2026
Memorial Stadium stood at 900 East 33rd Street in Baltimore, Maryland, serving as the city’s premier sporting arena for nearly half a century. Built on the site of an earlier 1922 facility, the rebuilt stadium opened on April 20, 1950, and was dedicated to Baltimore’s
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/ June 20, 2026
Goldstone Ground stood on Old Shoreham Road in Hove, East Sussex, and served as the home of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. for 95 years. First used for football in September 1901, the ground became Brighton’s permanent base from the 1902–03 season and grew into
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/ June 20, 2026
The Victoria Ground, known affectionately as ‘The Vic’, served as the home of Stoke City F.C. from March 1878 to May 1997 — a span of 119 years that made it the longest-tenured ground in English Football League history. Located in Stoke-on-Trent, the stadium took
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/ June 19, 2026
Burnden Park was a football ground on Manchester Road in the Burnden area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It served as the home of Bolton Wanderers Football Club from its opening on 11 September 1895 until the club’s final match there on 25 April 1997
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/ June 18, 2026
The Dell was the football ground of Southampton FC, located on Milton Road in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in 1898 on land that once featured a natural sunken valley — the ‘dell’ that gave the stadium its name — it served as the club’s home
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/ June 18, 2026
Named after a sport that barely caught on in England, the Baseball Ground was Derby County’s home for 102 years and one of English football’s most atmospheric old grounds. Squeezed into a tight residential grid on Shaftesbury Crescent in the Normanton area of Derby, it
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/ June 18, 2026
The Boleyn Ground, widely known as Upton Park, served as the home of West Ham United Football Club for 112 years, from 1904 until 2016. Situated in the E13 district of East London, the stadium derived its distinctive name from Green Street House — a
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