Center – 400 ft. Hilldale Park was a ballpark in Yeadon, Pennsylvania at the northeast corner of Chester and Cedar Avenues.
It was the home field of the Hilldale Club professional baseball team which played in the Negro leagues between 1910 and 1932.
[1] Contemporary maps indicate the ballpark was bounded by buildings and Cedar Avenue to the southwest (third base); Chester Avenue to the southeast (first base); Bunting Lane (now North MacDade Boulevard) to the northwest (left and center fields); and a portion of Holy Cross Cemetery to the northeast (right field).
Also attending were the four living members of the Negro league Philadelphia Stars, Bill Cash, Mahlon Duckett, Stanley Glenn, and Harold Gould, and Ray Mackey, great grandnephew of former Hilldale and Stars player Biz Mackey.
Darby fielded Negro League teams from 1910 to 1932. Notable players included baseball hall of fame members Pop Lloyd, Judy Johnson, Martin Dihigo, Joe Williams, Oscar Charleston, Ben Taylor, Biz Mackey, and Louis Santop.