Oaks Park (stadium)
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Oaks Park, formally known as the Oakland Baseball Park, and at times nicknamed Emeryville Park, was a
The ballpark was located within the city limits of Emeryville, between Oakland and Berkeley. The site was on the block bounded by 45th Street (north, first base);
Oaks Park was highly accessible, as a major
The Oaks had been playing most of their home games (except Thursdays and Sunday mornings) at
The park was not well maintained in its later years, contributing to a steep decline in attendance. These factors forced the Oaks to move to Vancouver in 1956. That move proved prescient, as the
Until recently, the site of the park was partly an empty, fenced-off lot, with Pixar Studios overlapping it where Watts Street used to run through. In 2011, it was incorporated into the second phase of Pixar Studios' expansion.[2] It is now a parking lot with a public bicycle path and park on the San Pablo side of the property,[3] across the street from Oaks Card Club.[4]
Gallery
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Oaks Park under construction
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Oakland Baseball Park artist's conception from The San Francisco Call on February 16, 1913
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Plaque commemorating Oakland Ball Park
Sources
- Take Me Out to the Ball Park, Lowell Reidenbaugh, The Sporting News, 1983 & 1987, p.200
- ^ Slattery, William J. (16 February 1913). "Baseball Talk of the Bay Cities". San Francisco Call. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "Pixar Animation – Hathaway Dinwiddie". Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Pixar's $64M HQ will meet growth plans". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Emeryville's rich history told by dedicated local scholars". East Bay Times. 16 January 2006. Retrieved 21 December 2018.