This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Providence, Rhode Island. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.
Adelaide Park (I)
Occupants: National Association neutral site in 1875, for games involving New Haven, Boston, Hartford and Brooklyn
Location: Broad, Hamilton and Sackett Streets; Adelaide and Elwood Avenues
Currently: residential
name of ballpark unknown
Occupant: Providence - League Alliance (1877)
Messer Park
Occupant: Providence Grays National League (1878-1885) / Eastern League (1886 partial)
Location: Messer Street (east, third base and left field), Willow Street (north, home plate); Wood Street (south, center field); Ropes (now Ellery) Street (west, first base and right field). Some sources name Hudson Street as the north boundary; others say High (now Westminster) Street, or "near" High Street. Photographic evidence indicates Willow.
Currently: residential
Adelaide Park (II)
Occupants:
Location: west of Broad Street, part of the former Park Garden, a large park bounded by what are now Broad, Sumter, Niagara and Sackett Streets. (Overlaps the first Adelaide Park block.)
Currently: residential
Melrose Park
Providence Grays - Eastern League (1906?-1911) / International League (1912-1917) Eastern League (1918 - mid-1925 disbanded)
Location: west of Melrose Avenue, near Roger Williams Park. Google Maps indicates between Thackery and Longfellow.
Weston Field
Occupant: Providence Grays - Eastern League (1918-?)
Location: Cranston, Rhode Island - otherwise unknown
Kinsley Park
Occupants:
Location: Kinsley Avenue, Acorn Street - opposite Nicholson File Company (a tool maker)
Currently: industrial
Cranston Stadium
Occupant: Providence Chiefs / Grays - New England League (1946- mid-1949 - league disbanded)
Location: Cranston, Rhode Island - Cranston Stadium complex - Peerless Street (northwest, left and center fields); Crescent Avenue (northeast, center and right fields); Midwood Street (east, right field and first base); football stadium (southwest, home plate and third base). Flint Avenue (south) and Jordan Avenue (southwest) border the football stadium.
