Canal Park



The main entrance and ticket booth at Canal Park, Jul-2009.


A look in at the main seating bowl from above the bleachers in right field.


It’s fun to stay at the YMCA ... that’s the building straight ahead.


Quick Facts:
Chronological Tour: Stop 121
Rating: 4 baseballs
After eight seasons at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in Canton, the team previously known as the Canton-Akron Indians pulled up stakes and moved north to this state-of-the-art facility in Akron, adjacent to the city’s canal. The club remained an Indians farm team.

The people in the Rubber City came out in droves, as Canal Park sold out nearly every game in its first three seasons. Akron officials were hoping that the park will be the centerpiece of a downtown resurgence in this fading industrial city.

The park has a few architectural touches that make it look something like a smaller version of Camden Yards or Coors Field.

Unfortunately, while the park has held up fairly well over a dozen years, the Aeros are no longer drawing in the fans like they used to. I returned to the park on a Wednesday night in July 2009, with the club in first place in their division, and the park was nearly empty. The deteriorating economy may be a factor, but according to fans I spoke to at the park, so is the club’s complacency with regard to marketing a once-proud franchise.


Game # Date League Level Result
280 23-Aug-1997 Eastern AA Trenton 8, AKRON 4, 2d
1002 29-Jul-2009 Eastern AA AKRON 5, Erie 1
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