Hamtramck Stadium

Hamtramck Stadium in Hamtramck, Michigan, possesses a national level of significance under National Register criteria A and B for its role in the history of Negro professional baseball in twentieth-century segregated America. The significance of Hamtramck Stadium is related to Negro League baseball history from its opening season in 1930 through 1937. Additionally, several National Baseball Hall of Fame players had Hamtramck Stadium as their home field, including Norman "Turkey" Stearnes, "Cool Papa" Bell and "Smokey Joe" Williams. In later years, the stadium served the Hamtramck community for local recreational baseball leagues, school leagues, semi-pro leagues, and other community events. Today, Hamtramck Stadium is one of only twelve remaining Negro League ballparks in the country. In addition, the stadium possesses local historic significance under A for its long time use in succeeding years as a key site where local sports events were held.

Hamtramck Stadium in Hamtramck, Michigan, is comprised of an original baseball field with an approximately 1500-seat open-air, steel-framed grandstand. It is located in the center of the city's Veterans Memorial Park on Hamtramck's south side. Hamtramck Stadium's grandstand faces northeast. The stadium is bordered to the west by a children's playground, former ice rink, tennis courts, and a field used for soccer, to the north by a football field and additional baseball diamonds, and to the southeast by industrial railroad tracks and housing.