Sal Maglie Stadium is a stadium in Niagara Falls, New York. It is primarily used for baseball and was the home of the Niagara Falls Rapids of the New York - Penn League. The ballpark has a capacity of 4,000 people and opened in 1939. Its original name was simply Hyde Park Stadium, and was originally designed primarily for football. In mid-season 1983 it was renamed for former major league player Sal Maglie. It was adapted for baseball in the 1950s and was rebuilt as a proper baseball facility in the late 1990s.
The stadium is currently home of the Niagara Purple Eagles college baseball, Niagara Catholic Patriots (high school baseball), and Niagara Power (NYCBL) baseball teams.
Professional clubs occupying the site over the years included several low-minor league clubs starting in the 1950s, and the Buffalo Bisons of the International League during 1967-69 as a temporary escape from the deteriorating War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo.
Sal Maglie Stadium is located within Hyde Park, on the east side of Hyde Park Boulevard (third base side), opposite where LaSalle Avenue and Whitney Avenue T-into Hyde Park Boulevard. Robbins Drive bounds the ballpark on the east (right field) side and crosses Gill Creek, which forms the south (first base) boundary of the grounds. Beyond left field are softball and little league diamonds, and then Linwood Avenue.
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