Hamilton Park, originally known as Brewster Park, was a sports venue in New Haven, Connecticut, located at the intersection of Whalley Avenue and what is now West Park Avenue.[1]
Hamilton Park hosted Yale University sports competitions in the 19th century. It was the first home field for Yale's football team, used from 1870 until Yale Field was acquired in the 1880s.[1][2]
The park hosted horse races[1] and was home for one game played by the New Haven Elm Citys baseball team of the National Association during the 1875 season. It is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the National Association as a major league. The Elm City club's normal home field was the Howard Avenue Grounds.
By the early 1890s, Hamilton Park had been renamed again, as Elm City Driving Park. The race track was eventually sold to developers. The location is now occupied partly by residences and partly by Edgewood Park.
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- Ed Stannard, Photography exhibit reveals 'lost New Haven' Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, The New Haven Register, Sunday, February 8, 2009
- Clarence Deming and Henry Walcott Farnam (1915), Yale Yesterday, Yale University Press
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