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Exposition Park

Kansas City, MO · 1889–1889

Archive ground · visual record pending Exposition Park

Kansas City, MO

1889–1889

No rights-cleared, venue-specific photograph was found. This identification plate uses only verified archive data and is not a reconstruction of the ground.

Exposition Park was a ballpark in Kansas City, MO. The first major-league game the register places here was on April 25, 1889 and the last on September 30, 1889. The register files it under the American Association.

74 major-league games in this archive were played here, between 1888 and 1892. The Kansas City Cowboys played 1 season here, in 1889. Across those seasons the club went 55-82.

The earliest game in the Retrosheet logs was on September 30, 1888, when the Kansas City Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Athletics 26–14. Mike Mattimore started for the Philadelphia Athletics and Henry Porter for the Kansas City Cowboys. Jack McQuaid was the plate umpire. The latest game in the Retrosheet logs was on October 15, 1892, when the Chicago Colts beat the St. Louis Browns 1–0. Bill Hutchison started for the Chicago Colts and Pink Hawley for the St. Louis Browns. Bill Kling was the plate umpire. The largest announced attendance in the available logs was 4,672, for a game between the Boston Beaneaters and the St. Louis Browns on August 23, 1892.

The major leagues also played in Kansas City, MO at Athletic Park (1884–1884), Association Park (1886–1892), Gordon and Koppel Field (1914–1915), Municipal Stadium (1955–1972), and Kauffman Stadium (from 1973).

Further reading: Wikipedia