Oriole Park is the name of several former major league and minor league baseball parks in Baltimore, Maryland.It is also half the name of the current downtown home of the Baltimore Orioles, its full name being Oriole Park at Camden Yards.Early Oriole ParksAll of the early incarnations of "Oriole Park" were built within a few blocks of each other.The first field called Oriole Park was built on the southwest corner of Sixth Street / Huntington Avenue (later renamed 25th Street), to the north; and York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) to the east. The park was also variously known as Huntington Avenue Park and American Association Park. It was the first home of the major league American Association professional baseball franchise, the first to bear the name of the Baltimore Orioles, during 1882–1889.In 1890, the Orioles club moved four blocks north and opened a new Oriole Park, (retroactively tagged as Oriole Park II). It was on a roughly rectangular block bounded by 10th Street (later renamed 29th Street) (on the north); York Road (later Greenmount Avenue) (to the east); 9th Street (later renamed 28th Street) (on the south); and Barclay Street (on west side). This field in the then suburban village of Waverly, a community then just outside the northeast city limits of Baltimore at North Avenue (then called Boundary Avenue), from 1816, served as the home of the A.A. Orioles entry only briefly, during 1890 and for the first month of the spring season in 1891. The club's reason for abandoning the park after barely more than one full season is unknown. Coincidentally, it was one city block south of two later Oriole Parks at 29th Street and Greenmount Avenue in the early 20th century, 1901-1914 and 1916-1944.
