This is a list of venues used for professional baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

 and neighboring cities including Alameda

Alameda, California

Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island, and is adjacent to Oakland in the San Francisco Bay. The Bay Farm Island portion of the city is adjacent to the Oakland International Airport. At the 2010 census, the city had a...

 and Emeryville

Emeryville, California

Emeryville is a small city located in Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay. Its proximity to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and...

. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed.

Oakland Baseball Grounds

Occupants:

Oakland - California League (1879) - back to Rec Grounds in SF 1880

San Francisco - California League (1879) - back to Rec Grounds in SF 1880

Location: 13th Street (south); 14th Street (north); Center Street (west); Kirkham Street (east)

Currently: Industry and small businesses

Alameda Athletic and Baseball Grounds a.k.a. Alameda Grounds

Occupants:

Oakland Greenhood & Morans - California League (1886 only - moved to SF in 1887, back to OAK in 1890)

San Francisco Pioneers - California League (moved to SF in 1887)

Location: north of Central Avenue near the site of Neptune Beach

Neptune Beach, California

Neptune Beach was an amusement park on the shore of San Francisco Bay in the city of Alameda, California. The park was served by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company and ferries from San Francisco. It operated from 1917 until it closed in 1939....

; between 7th (later Webster) Street (west); and Page Street (east), in Alameda

Currently: Housing, small businesses, McDonald's

McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

Emeryville Grounds

Occupant: Oakland Colonels (formerly Greenhood & Morans) - California League (1890-91)

Location: uncertain

ballpark at Piedmont Baths

Occupant: Oakland Colonels - California League (1892-93)

Location: 24th Street (north) and Waverly Street (west); at north end of Lake Merritt

Lake Merritt

Lake Merritt is a large tidal lagoon that lies just east of downtown Oakland, California. It is surrounded by parkland and city neighborhoods. A popular 3.1 mile walking and jogging path runs along its perimeter...

Currently: Housing and small businesses

ballpark(s) unknown

Occupants:

Oakland Clamdiggers - California State League (1896-98)

Oakland Colts - Pacific States League (1898 only)

Freeman's Park

Occupants:

Oakland Clamdiggers - California State League (1899-1902)

Oakland Oaks

Oakland Oaks (PCL)

The Oakland Oaks were a minor league baseball team in Oakland, California that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 through 1955, after which the club transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia...

 - Pacific Coast League

Pacific Coast League

The Pacific Coast League is a minor-league baseball league operating in the Western, Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Along with the International League and the Mexican League, it is one of three leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball.The...

 (1903,1907-12)

Location: 59th Street (south) and San Pablo Avenue (east); in Emeryville

ballpark uncertain

San Francisco Seals - Pacific Coast League

Pacific Coast League

The Pacific Coast League is a minor-league baseball league operating in the Western, Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Along with the International League and the Mexican League, it is one of three leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball.The...

 (1906 after SF earthquake) (unclear whether the games were held at Freeman's Park or Idora Park)

Idora Park

Idora Park

Idora Park was a Victorian era trolley park in north Oakland, California constructed in 1904 on the site of an informal park setting called Ayala Park on the north banks of Temescal Creek. Idora Park was leased by the Ingersoll Pleasure and Amusement Park Company that ran several eastern pleasure...

Occupant: Oakland Oaks

Oakland Oaks (PCL)

The Oakland Oaks were a minor league baseball team in Oakland, California that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 through 1955, after which the club transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia...

 - Pacific Coast League

Pacific Coast League

The Pacific Coast League is a minor-league baseball league operating in the Western, Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Along with the International League and the Mexican League, it is one of three leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball.The...

 (1904-06)

Location: amusement park bounded by 56th Street (south); 58th Street (north); Telegraph Avenue (east); Shattuck Avenue (west)

Currently: Housing

ballpark(s) unknown

Occupants:

Oakland Commuters - California State League (1906-07)

Oakland - Central California Baseball League (1910 part only)

Oakland - Central California Baseball League (1911 part only)

Oaks Park

Oaks Park (stadium)

Oaks Park, formally known as the Oakland Baseball Park, and at times nicknamed Emeryville Park, was a baseball stadium in Emeryville, California. It was primarily used for baseball, and was the home field of the Oakland Oaks Pacific Coast League baseball team. It opened in 1913 and held 7,000...

 a.k.a. Emeryville Park

Occupants:

Oakland Oaks

Oakland Oaks (PCL)

The Oakland Oaks were a minor league baseball team in Oakland, California that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 through 1955, after which the club transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia...

 - Pacific Coast League

Pacific Coast League

The Pacific Coast League is a minor-league baseball league operating in the Western, Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Along with the International League and the Mexican League, it is one of three leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball.The...

 (1913-55)

San Francisco Seals - PCL (1914 only)

?Oakland - California State League (1915 only)

Location: 1120 Park Avenue (south, left field); San Pablo Avenue (east, third base); 45th Street (north, first base); Watts Street (west, right field); in Emeryville

Currently: Pixar Studios

Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

Occupant:

Oakland Athletics

Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....

 - American League

American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...

(1968-present)

Location: 7000 Coliseum Way

Sources

• Peter Filichia, Professional Baseball Franchises, Facts on File, 1993.
• Phil Lowry, Green Cathedrals, several editions.
• Michael Benson, Ballparks of North America, McFarland, 1989.