Washington Park II
Brooklyn, NY · 1889–1890
Brooklyn, NY
1889–1890
Washington Park II was a ballpark in Brooklyn, NY. The first major-league game the register places here was on May 30, 1889 and the last on October 3, 1890.
123 major-league games in this archive were played here, between 1889 and 1890. The Brooklyn Bridegrooms played 1 season here, in 1890. Across those seasons the club went 86-43.
The earliest game in the Retrosheet logs was on May 30, 1889, when the St. Louis Browns beat the Brooklyn Bridegrooms 8–4. Silver King started for the St. Louis Browns and Adonis Terry for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. John Gaffney was the plate umpire. The latest game in the Retrosheet logs was on October 3, 1890, when the Brooklyn Bridegrooms beat the Pittsburg Alleghenys 10–4. Bill Day started for the Pittsburg Alleghenys and Dave Foutz for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. Tom Lynch was the plate umpire. The largest announced attendance in the available logs was 22,000, for a game between the St. Louis Browns and the Brooklyn Bridegrooms on May 30, 1889.
Other parks stood on this ground: Washington Park I (1884–1889), Washington Park III (1898–1912), and Washington Park IV (1914–1915). The major leagues also played in Brooklyn, NY at Union Grounds (1871–1877), Capitoline Grounds (1872–1872), Washington Park I (1884–1889), Eastern Park (1890–1897), and Washington Park III (1898–1912), and 2 other grounds.