Knights Stadium

View of the stadium from a satellite.

Home of Charlotte Knights, 1990 to 2013

BUILT: 1990

CAPACITY: 10,002

Knights Stadium in Fort Mill, SC, was the home of Charlotte affiliated baseball from 1990 through 2013. After that, the Charlotte Knights of the International League began playing in a new ballpark in uptown Charlotte, NC.

Just before the 1985 season, the Double-A Charlotte O's lost Jim Crockett Memorial Park to arson. They played in temporary parks the next five seasons, the first four on the Crockett site and the last just over the South Carolina border in the under-construction shadow of what would open as Knights Castle.

Three seasons later, the IL expanded and Charlotte won a slot. Triple-A bumping Double-A, ironically, took Charlotte fans from future Chicago Cubs to future Chicago White Sox. They drew well only briefly, and in 2014 - after years in or near the IL attendance cellar - returned to Charlotte's new stadium.

Cato Corp. bought the old park and land, originally for a distribution center but that morphed into a mixed-use development.