Civic Stadium

Civic Stadium
Location	Eugene, OR United States 44.036501; -123.090307
Building chronology
Built	1938
Tenants
Eugene Emeralds 1969-2009
Capacity
5,000

Civic Stadium in Eugene, OR, was the home of Eugene affiliated baseball from 1969 through 2009. After that, the Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest League began playing in a new ballpark in Eugene.

The Works Projects Administration, local Chamber of Commerce and school district built Civic in 1938 for football or baseball. Baseball moved to Bethel Park before the NwL arrived in 1955, but the 1969 MLB expansion brought it back when the bumped Seattle Angels deemed Bethel too small for Triple-A.

The NwL, expanding just as the Triple-A team moved to Sacramento, CA, returned to Eugene in 1974 - at Civic. In 2008, it joined the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009, with PK Park a new option and Civic deteriorating, it lost the Ems. It featured one of the few remaining wooden grandstands in the United States.

In 2015, the city and a civic group bought it to create a youth recreational facility called Civic Park. An arson fire destroyed the stadium that June 29th, but organizers kept the project going. They held a "Day of Play" preview in October 2019 and - after the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic caused a final but lengthy delay - opened it the following September.