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Oriole Park is the name of several former major league and minor league baseball parks in Baltimore, Maryland. It is also half the name of the current downtown home of the Baltimore Orioles, its full name being Oriole Park at Camden Yards. ==Early Oriole Parks== All of the early incarnations of "Oriole Park" were built within a few blocks of each other. The first field called Oriole Park was built on the southwest corner of Sixth Street / Huntington Avenue (later renamed 25th Street) (north); and York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) (east). The park was also variously known as Huntington Avenue Park and American Association Park. It was the first home of the major league American Association professional baseball franchise called the Baltimore Orioles, during 1882–1889. In 1890, the Orioles club moved four blocks north and opened a new Oriole Park, (retroactively tagged as Oriole Park II). It was on a roughly rectangular block bounded by 10th Street (later renamed 29th Street) (north); York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) (east); 9th Street (later renamed 28th Street) (south); and Barclay Street (west). This field in the then suburban village of Waverly, a community then just outside the northeast city limits of Baltimore at North Avenue (then Boundary Avenue), from 1816, served as the home of the A.A. Orioles entry only briefly, during 1890 and for the first month of the spring season in 1891.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1891/PKL_BAL061891.htm )〕 The club's reason for abandoning the park after barely more than one full season is unknown. The club then opened Union Park (also sometimes called Oriole Park - i.e. also retroactively tagged Oriole Park III) in early 1891 also south of Waverly at Greenmount Avenue and Sixth Street (also Huntington Avenue, (later today known as 25th Street) and operated there for the rest of the 1890s, when the team joined the National League of 1876, when the competing American Association folded, and producing the first glory years of the Orioles of the "Gay Nineties". Despite their great success in the 90s, with three straight championships and the old "Temple Cup" and several runner-up finishes, Baltimore was unceremoniously dropped when the League contracted from 12 down to 8 teams in 1900.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/PK_BAL07.htm )〕 The newly formed American League from the reorganized Western League, under famous leader and new president Ban Johnson, took up in 1901 where the National s had left off several years earlier, adding some of the dropped teams and adding others in additional cities. They opened a new Oriole Park, (also retroactively called Oriole Park IV, as well as being dubbed "American League Park" by the contemporary media). It was on the same site as the 1890-91 experimental site (located at ). The A.L.'s new Orioles played for just two uneventful seasons before they were transferred north for the 1903 season to become the "New York Highlanders", (and occasionally as the "New York Americans") as part of a peace pact and recognition agreement between the two leagues and to give the Americans a respectable foothold in the nation's largest city. That team now known since 1913 as the New York Yankees, where they eventually became the most successful team in the history of major league baseball. Baltimore was thus reduced to minor league status, as an entry in the Eastern League and later renamed International League, which began play at this same Oriole Park/American League Park. There they enjoyed some success, producing some remarkable and marketable players, notably one local boy, first as a stunning pitcher, George Herman ("Babe Ruth") Ruth, who was eventually sold to the Boston Red Sox and later gained even greater fame as a home run slugger with the same New York Yankees that had begun in Baltimore. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oriole Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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