Washington Park III
Brooklyn, NY · 1898–1912
Washington Park III was a ballpark in Brooklyn, NY. The first major-league game the register places here was on April 30, 1898 and the last on November 1, 1912.
1,123 major-league games in this archive were played here, between 1898 and 1912. The game logs list the Brooklyn Dodgers as the home club here.
The earliest game in the Retrosheet logs was on April 30, 1898, when the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Brooklyn Bridegrooms 6–4. George Wheeler started for the Philadelphia Phillies and Brickyard Kennedy for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. Tom Lynch was the plate umpire. The latest game in the Retrosheet logs was on October 5, 1912, when the New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 1–0. The largest announced attendance in the available logs was 25,000, for a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas on April 30, 1905.
Other parks stood on this ground: Washington Park I (1884–1889), Washington Park II (1889–1890), 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), Washington Park II (1889–1890), and Eastern Park (1890–1897), and 2 other grounds.