Washington Park was a baseball park

Baseball park

A baseball park, also known as a baseball stadium, ball park, or ballpark is a venue where baseball is played. It consists of the playing field and the surrounding spectator seating...

 in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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, California

California

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, United States

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. It was primarily used for baseball

Baseball

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 and was the home of the Los Angeles Angels

Los Angeles Angels (PCL)

The Los Angeles Angels were a team based in Los Angeles, California that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 through 1957, after which they transferred to Spokane, Washington to become the Spokane Indians. Los Angeles would later become the host city to a Major League Baseball team, the...

 from 1912 until they moved to Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)

Wrigley Field was a ballpark in Los Angeles, California which served as host to minor league baseball teams in the region for over 30 years, and was the home park for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League as well as a current major league team, the later Los Angeles Angels, in their...

 late in the 1925 season.

Prior to 1912, the Angels had played at a ballfield next to Chutes Park

Chutes Park

Chutes Park in Los Angeles, California began as a trolley park in 1887. It was a amusement park bounded by Grand Avenue on the west, Main Street on the east, Washington Boulevard on the north and 21st Street on the south. At various times it included rides, animal exhibits, a theater and a...

, a city amusement park. The new Washington Park, located at Washington and Hill Streets, was just a short distance from Chutes Park.

The Venice PCL entry of 1913-14 also played its home games at Washington Park, except for Sunday morning and special holiday games.

The sources say that William Wrigley, Jr., owner of the Angels was rebuffed in his request to build an underground parking garage beneath the ballpark. He then decided to build a new ballpark, which was named Wrigley Field and opened in 1925 at 42nd Street and Avalon Boulevard.

The park was demolished in the Mid-1950s.

Sources

• Take Me Out to the Ball Park, Lowell Reidenbaugh, The Sporting News, 1983 & 1987, p. 138-142
• Ballparks of North America, Michael Benson, McFarland, 1989, p. 209