1896: Millers Get New Stadium

October 13th, 2006

Check out this Star Tribune blog’s flashback to an 1896 Minneapolis Journal story about Nicollet Park, home of the Minneapolis Millers baseball team. The article announces a “surprise” in the selection of the park’s location, which was expected to be in the Kenwood area. Instead, the park was built at the intersection of Lake and Nicollet, bordered by 31st Street on the south and Blaisdell Avenue on the west.

At the new park it is proposed to put $4,000 into the grand stand and fences, and the seating capacity of grand stand and bleachers will be 4,000. The grand stand will have a capacity of half the total number seated and there will be two bleachers to accommodate 1,000 rooters each.

The stadium stood for 60 years until Metropolitan Stadium was built in Bloomington.