Oaks Park (stadium)

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Oaks Park, also known as the Oakland Baseball Park, was a baseball stadium in Emeryville, California. It was primarily used for baseball, and was the home field of the Oakland Oaks Pacific Coast League baseball team. It opened in 1913 and held 7,000 people.

It was actually located within the city limits of Emeryville, between Oakland and Berkeley. The site was on the block bounded by 45th Street, San Pablo Avenue, Park Street, and Watts Street. Today, Watts Street stops at Park, and also on the other side, at 45th. The site is today partly an empty, fenced-off lot, with Pixar Studios overlapping it where Watts Street used to run through. The stadium did not front directly on San Pablo where a strip of various small commercial buildings stood, now replaced by a single one-story commercial building with several chain businesses.

Oaks Park was highly accessible, as a major streetcar line ran on San Pablo Avenue, and a station serving several of the Key System's transbay commuter rail lines existed a few blocks south at Yerba Buena Avenue.