Avenue Grounds was a baseball field located in Cincinnati, USA. Also known as Brighton Park and Cincinnati Baseball Park, the ground was home to the Cincinnati Reds baseball club from April 25, 1876, to August 27, 1879. The ballpark featured a grandstand that could seat up to 3,000 fans. It was approximately north of the Union Grounds, where the original professional team from the area, the Cincinnati Red Stockings played, and was approximately from the heart of the city, so horse-drawn streetcars and trains were a popular way to travel to the park. The ballpark had first opened in , and would continue to be used for various types of amateur sports until at least the mid-1890s. The major league club of 1876–1879 played poorly, and actually dropped out of the league after the 1879 season ended. The club revived for 1880, and relocated to the Bank Street Grounds. Location Little is known about this ballpark, as even its location is somewhat sketchy. Contemporary atlases indicate the "Base Ball Grounds" was about two short blocks west of Spring Grove Avenue, bounded on the south by Alabama Avenue, on the west by Mill Creek, on the north by the imaginary line extending from Monmouth Street, and on the immediate east by the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad tracks. It was a block north of the stockyards, and was straight west of the Cincinnati Work House, which was on the northeast corner of Alabama and Colerain, and which served as the jail. The Cincinnati Enquirer for July 13, 1875, page 4, reported on the planned new ballpark: "Eight acres (the old Union Grounds contained about four) have been leased north of the Stock Yards and west of the Marietta Railroad, which road will build a station at this point and carry passengers the round trip for 15 cents. $12,000 will be spent in fitting up the grounds with a seating capacity of 7,000, and making them the finest in the country in every way." (Local newspapers in the 19th century often termed any new ballpark as "the finest in the country.") Available Sanborn insurance maps do not have detail for the location. After the ballpark's days as a major league venue were over, it continued to be used for amateur baseball and for other events such as soccer and trapshooting. The Enquirer's final mention of the ballpark, by then routinely being called the