Full name Connie Mack Field Opened October 1924 Demolished February 1992 | Surface Grass Capacity 3,500 | |
Former names Municipal Athletic Field (1924–1926)
Wright Field (1927–1952) Location West Palm Beach, Florida Similar McCurdy Field, Miami Stadium, Columbia Park, Wilmington Park, Terry Park Ballfield | ||
Connie Mack Field was a ballpark in West Palm Beach, Florida and was the long-time spring training home of the Philadelphia Athletics and Kansas City Athletics. The stadium was built in 1924 and named Municipal Athletic Field. Athletic Stadium hosted its first event, a football game, in October 1924. The first baseball game was played in December.
It was renamed Wright Field in 1927 for West Palm Beach City Manager George C. Wright. It was renamed Connie Mack Field in 1952 in honor of long-time Philadelphia Athletics manager and owner Connie Mack and was replaced in 1962 by West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium although the grandstand remained until 1973. Thereafter, the ball field itself remained and was used regularly by neighboring Twin Lakes High School.
In 1992 it was all bulldozed for a garage for the new Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts .
The grandstands originally held about 2,000; black fans watched from a small section in the right-field corner. Total capacity was about 3,500.
Record attendance for baseball was on March 20, 1949 when 6,988 fans saw the A's defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a spring training game, by a 6-0 decision, which featured Jackie Robinson on the field and then-Secretary of State General of the Army George C. Marshall in attendance.