Quigley Stadium

The primary remaining grandstand at Quigley Stadium, Jun-2003.

The view from a short bleacher behind home plate.

• Location: Front Street south of Orange Avenue, West Haven, Conn.
• Opened: 1947 as Exhibition Stadium
• Home team: West Haven Yankees (1972-79), Whitecaps (1980), A’s (1981-82), Eastern League

The park saw Eastern League ball for eleven seasons. After the Eastern League pulled out and moved to Albany, N.Y., the wooden stands that were in place started to rot, and the town removed them. They put in an aluminum football grandstand along the third-base side and shorter bleachers behind home plate and along the first-base side.

Today, the park is used by the West Haven Twilight League as well as some American Legion teams, who were playing the evening I saw the park, in 2003. A local parochial high school also uses it for football, along with West Haven’s junior football program.