Hilltop Park

1908, April 4, Opening Day, NY Highlanders & Phila.Ath

Wikipedia - "Hilltop Park was the nickname of a baseball park that stood in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. It was the home of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball club from 1903-1912 when they were known as the 'Highlanders'. It was also the temporary home of the New York Giants during a two-month period in 1911 while the Polo Grounds was being rebuilt after a fire. The ballpark's formal name (as painted on its exterior walls) was American League Park. Because the park was located on The Hilltop of Manhattan Island, it came to be known as Hilltop Park, and its team was often called the New York Highlanders as well as the Americans or the Yankees."
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SABR - "The cramped wooden ballpark had few admirers. Inconveniently located in the far northern reaches of Manhattan, it had been hastily erected in spring 1903 and was constantly in need of refurbishment. The team that it housed was a fitting occupant, a second-fiddle mediocrity that never won a pennant and only rarely contended for one. Unloved and short-lived – it served as a baseball venue for only ten years – scant tears were shed when the confines passed from the major-league scene after the 1912 season. Yet without Hilltop Park, the American League would have been unable to secure a foothold in New York City. And the fortunes of the game’s dominant franchise might well have played out far differently."
SABR: Hilltop Park

Hilltop Park Historical Analysis
"The first ballpark used by the American League in New York City was Hilltop Park. The park got its name because it was situated on the top of a hill overlooking the Hudson River. Hilltop was built for the American League franchise that had spent its first two seasons in Baltimore (the original Baltimore Orioles). The park opened on April 30, 1903, as the home park of the then New York Highlanders-later better known as the Yankees. The location of Hilltop Park was at the Southwest corner of Broadway and One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Street on the northwest portion of the island (and borough) of Manhattan in the city of New York."
Baseball Almanac

Hilltop Park And the Church of Baseball
"Perched on a hill overlooking the Hudson River at the southwest corner of Broadway and 168th Street in Washington Heights was Hilltop Park, the original home ball field of the New York Yankees (known then as the Highlanders).
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Hilltop Park

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