Date/Time:
      May 17, 2026
      All Day

Hinchliffe Stadium, located atop the Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, NJ, is one of only four stadiums still standing that hosted Negro League baseball games.

Hinchliffe Stadium was built in 1932 as an athletic facility for the local industrial working class citizens who were then struggling through the early years of the Great Depression. The following year was the stadium’s first complete season hosting Negro League baseball. Also that year, it hosted the “Colored Championship of the Nation,” the Negro League’s equivalent of the World Series, and became the home field of the New York Black Yankees, which was part of the Negro National League from 1936 through 1948. Some team members who played at Hinchliffe Stadium include Satchel Paige, Fats Jenkins, Willie Wells, and George Crowe, among many other notables.

Having closed in 1996 after many years of neglect and deterioration, Hinchliffe Stadium reopened after an extensive two-year renovation on May 17, 2023. Currently owned by the Paterson Board of Education, the stadium now serves as a multipurpose facility for the city’s two high schools.

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