Red Wing Stadium was primarily a baseball stadium and the home park of the International League Rochester Red Wings from 1929 through 1996. It was also the home of the New York Black Yankees for their 1948 Negro National League campaign. It was located at 500 Norton Street in Rochester, New York. It was torn down about a year after the last baseball game was played there on August 30, 1996. The Red Wings moved in to Frontier Field beginning with the 1997 baseball season. The Rochester Red Wings are a minor league baseball team based in Rochester, New York. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Nickname: The Flour City, The Flower City, The Worlds Image Center Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Official website: www. ... The International League (IL) is a minor league baseball league which operates in the eastern United States and Canada. ... The Rochester Red Wings are a minor league baseball team based in Rochester, New York. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Negro National League can refer to either one or both of these two leagues Negro National League 1920 to 31 or Negro National League 1933 to 48 This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Nickname: The Flour City, The Flower City, The Worlds Image Center Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Official website: www. ... Frontier Field is a baseball field in Rochester, New York where the Rochester Red Wings play. ...

It was renamed Silver Stadium in August 1968 in honor of Maurice E. "Morrie" Silver, a Rochester businessman who led a group of more than 7000 fans of the team that formed Rochester Community Baseball in the fall of 1956. The organization was formed to purchase the stadium and the Red Wings franchise from the major league parent St. Louis Cardinals, which kept the team in Rochester for the 1957 season and beyond. Major league affiliations National League (1892-present) Central Division (1994-present) Eastern Division (1969-1993) American Association (1882-1891) Major league titles World Series titles (9) 1982 â€¢1967 â€¢ 1964 â€¢ 1946 1944 â€¢ 1942 â€¢ 1934 â€¢ 1931 1926 NL Pennants (16) 2004 â€¢ 1987 â€¢ 1985 â€¢ 1982 1968 â€¢ 1967 â€¢ 1964 â€¢ 1946 1944 â€¢ 1943 â€¢ 1942 â€¢ 1934...

The park was built in the middle of a thriving urban residential neighborhood, which like most suffered a decline in the latter half of the century. Plentiful parking for automobiles, not a huge concern at the time it was built, became an issue as more and more fans drove their cars to the ballpark. Major league baseball mandated changes to minor league ballparks in the 1990s to both upgrade the field of play and the facilities that the players used. Even though it was renovated in the mid-1980s, Silver was deficient in a number of these areas. Like most old ballparks of its era, it did not have any corporate luxury suites. Also, public sentiment in Rochester was in favor of building a new ballpark somewhere closer to the downtown area, with plenty of parking and access to expressways (though at various times proposals were made to build the new stadium in one of Rochester's suburbs, namely Greece, New York and Victor, New York). Silver Stadium was a much loved ballpark by most of the fans of the Red Wings but it was simply not well suited for minor league baseball in the 21st century. Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... Victor, New York is both a town and a village in Ontario County, New York: Village of Victor Town of Victor This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Minor League Baseball, formerly the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and also known in the past as NAPBL, National Baseball Association, and NA, is the organization which oversees the governing and organization of minor league baseball in North America. ...

References

Lloyd Johnson & Miles Wolff, editors The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball Durham (NC): Baseball America, Inc., 1997. ISBN 09637189975