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Olympics Grounds

About Olympics Grounds

Olympics Grounds is recorded as an MLB stadium in Washington, District of Columbia. Former tenants include Washington Olympics (MLB, 1871–1872), Washington Nationals (MLB, 1872, 1875) and Washington Blue Legs (MLB, 1873). In all, 3 MLB teams have called it home. On our ranked lists it ranks 9th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams.

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9th for most tenants among 67 venues with 3 or more teams

Venue Information

Location

Washington, District of Columbia 20009

Elevation

89 ft

27 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 Olympics Grounds by team, 1871–1875. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Washington Nationals (MLB, 1875) While based here: 1 season · 5-23 regular season MLB · 1875 Territory map on ImperialismMap	MLB	1875
Washington Blue Legs While based here: 1 season · 8-31 regular season MLB · 1873 Territory map on ImperialismMap	MLB	1873
Washington Nationals (MLB, 1872) While based here: 1 season · 0-10 regular season MLB · 1872 Territory map on ImperialismMap	MLB	1872
Washington Olympics While based here: 2 seasons · 16-23-2 regular season MLB · 1871–1872 Territory map on ImperialismMap	MLB	1871–1872

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.

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: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 0 m of this point).

Location

Coordinates: 38.9145, -77.0374

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
Athletic Park		0.7 mi
Boundary Field	1891–1911	0.9 mi
Griffith Stadium	1911–1961	0.9 mi
William H. Greene Stadium	1926–	1.2 mi
Capital One Arena	1997–	1.4 mi
Uline Arena	1941–	2.0 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

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