Roosevelt Stadium

Roosevelt Stadium is the name of a former baseball park in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was built in 1936, as a Works Progress Administration project, and was named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the author of that New Deal agency.

It was used for some "home" games by the Brooklyn Dodgers during their last couple of seasons in Brooklyn, at least in part as a negotiating tactic with the Borough of Brooklyn, in pursuit of a new stadium to replace Ebbets Field. That negotiation came to naught, and the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, California in 1958.

It was also the home field of the Jersey City entry in the International League during parts of the 1950s and early 1960s.

The stadium saw sporadic use during its final years of existence. One of its more celebrated events was a Grateful Dead concert on August 4, 1976.

After that, Roosevelt Stadium sat, slowly crumbling and accumulating weeds of many different varieties. It was finally demolished in 1985.

Dimensions

• Left Field – 330 ft.
• Left Center – 377 ft.
• Center Field – 411 ft.
• Right Center – 377 ft.
• Right Field – 330 ft.

External Links

• Info about the stadium
• Info about the Grateful Dead concert

Sources

• Green Cathedrals, by Philip J. Lowry.