Baseball Stadium

Erwin Ballfield (1920s-1953)

Bird's Eye view looking west the Erwin Field at Broad and West Main Streets, ~1940. (Courtesy Durham County Library / North Carolina Collection) One of the early community assets created by the Erwin Cotton Mills and its principal, William Erwin, was the Erwin field, which hosted the Erwin Auditorium baseball team.

East Durham Baseball Park

Bulls at the East Durham Ballpark, 1913. From "Baseball's Hometown Teams: The Story of the Minor Leagues" by Bruce Chadwick

Durham Bulls Athletic Park

(Photo by Gary Kueber) --- Looking northwest across the area around Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co., 1891. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection / Digital Durham) I'd like to know how the short diagonal street extending southeast from Blackwell St. got the name "Red Cross Street", but I haven't found an explanation that suffices, other...

Durham Athletic Park

El Toro Baseball Field, circa 1930. The Jack Tar/Washington Duke Hotel is in the left background. (Courtesy Duke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection) Despite the preeminence of basketball in North Carolina today, baseball seems to be far more tightly woven into Durham's DNA.