Highland Park Stadium, Kokomo, Ind.

Highland Park Stadium

Main entrance to Highland Park Stadium, Jul-2009.

A look in at the seating bowl from the right-field foul line.

A view of the playing field from beyond the first-base fence.

Quick Facts:

Location: Highland Park, Stadium Drive off Defenbaugh Street, Kokomo, Ind.
Opened: Unknown (renovated 1985)
Home team: Kokomo Giants, Mississippi-Ohio Valley League (1955); Kokomo Dodgers, Midwest League (1956-61)
Capacity: 4,000 (approx.)

Highland Park Stadium, located in the park by that name in the center of Kokomo, hosted seven years of Minor League ball from 1955 to 1961. The park features fair dimensions except for the right-field line, which is only 270 feet from the plate owing to a city street that could not be vacated.

I have no idea when the old stadium structure was torn out; new grandstands were erected for the 1985 American Legion World Series, and they are still on the site.

I was not able to get into Highland Park Stadium on my 2009 visit.

In 2015, the city of Kokomo built a new park several miles away, closer to downtown, to be the home of college and high school baseball in the city.

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