This field was home to the Philadelphia Athletics professional baseball team in the first season of the American Association, 1882.

The site of the park had been used for amateur baseball since the Civil War.

[3] The Athletics played 39 regular-season games at the park, compiling a 21–18 record.

[4] The franchise relocated to Jefferson Street Grounds in 1883.

Philadelphia Ball Park was built several blocks west of this site, five years later.