Also that year, the YMCA began to sponsor the Pennsylvania Railroad's employee football team which had existed since 1886.

[6] A fire in 1922 prior to the start of the baseball season destroyed half the backstop and swept across the stands.

The grandstand had not yet been repaired when Friends' Central School's baseball team opened its season against Chestnut Hill Academy on April 11, 1922.

The independent Norfolk Black Bombers all-Black barnstorming football team played the Washington Willow Trees on Thanksgiving Day 1942 at the park.

[11] Stars co-owner Eddie Gottlieb organized a semi-professional baseball team called the "All-Phillies" which played at the field in its later years.

[14] Biographer Mark Ribowsky documented that Pittsburgh Crawfords catcher Josh Gibson hit a long home run in a game against the Stars early in the 1936 season that flew out of the ballpark.

[8] Negro World Series games were often played at neutral game-sites to attract larger crowds.

The ballpark remained sturdy despite a woman named Miss Hattie Williams chopping wood from the grandstand with a hatchet to heat the washtub where she cooked the hot dogs for her concession stand behind home plate.

[18] A black-tie dinner was held on September 2, 2004 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, near the site of the ballpark, to raise money for the Memorial Park.

The dinner honored former players Bill Cash, Stanley Glenn, Harold Gould, and Wilmer Harris.

There is a Pennsylvania Historic Site marker, a Negro Leagues Memorial Statue, and Philadelphia MuralArts program mural celebrating the Stars.

Mayor John Street and Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins attended the unveiling of the statue, along with the then living members of the Stars, Bill Cash, Mahlon Duckett, Stanley Glenn, Harold Gould, and Wilmer Harris.

[21] Across Belmont Avenue from the Memorial Park is the mural "Philadelphia Stars: a tribute to Negro League baseball".

[23] The mural has been described as an "impressionistic collage of scenes"; McShane consulted with surviving Stars players on their memories of the ballpark before creating the work.