Eclipse Park I

Opened in 1874

Several venues share the name “Eclipse Park”. See all of them.

About Eclipse Park I

Eclipse Park I was an MLB stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened in 1874 and closed in 1893. Its only tenant was Louisville Colonels (MLB, 1882–1892). On our ranked lists it ranks 55th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

55th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
30th shortest-lived of 82 MLB stadiums with known opening and closing years
76th longest single tenancy (10 years) of the 100 longest on record in MLB stadiums

Venue Information

Year Opened

1874

Year Closed

1893

Location

Louisville, Kentucky

Elevation

452 ft

138 m above sea level

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Teams

Home seasons at Eclipse Park I by team, 1874–1893. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Louisville Colonels While based here: 11 seasons · 632-725-28 regular season MLB · 1882–1892 Louisville Eclipse (1882–1884) Louisville Colonels (1885–1892) Territory map on ImperialismMap Eclipse Park I 1882–1892 Eclipse Park II 1893–1899	MLB	1882–1892

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

When was Eclipse Park I built?

Eclipse Park I opened in 1874.

Where did the Louisville Colonels play after Eclipse Park I?

After leaving Eclipse Park I in 1892, the Louisville Colonels moved to Eclipse Park II in 1893. They played there until 1899.

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
VenueStats compilation: Coordinates (compiled by VenueStats; no outside source was kept for this point), Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).

Location

Coordinates: 38.2516, -85.7988

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
Eclipse Park II	1893–1899	0.2 mi
Eclipse Park III	1902–1922	2.0 mi
Louisville Gardens	1905–	2.1 mi
Louisville Baseball Park		2.5 mi
Parkway Field		3.5 mi
L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium	1998–	3.8 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Louisville Colonels

Every source for the facts on this page is listed under Sources.