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J. Cal Ewing, owner of the Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals, built his own stadium when he grew tired of sharing a lease on Recreation Park #2 with another Pacific Coast League team, the Oakland Oaks. He leased land from the San Francisco Archdiocese and spent $100,000, building what was, in 1914, the most modern minor league baseball park. It opened May 16, 1914, to some fanfare, as the San Francisco Seals played the Oakland Oaks; conditions at the park were typically horrible during the 1914 season, with high winds and fog disrupting play. When Ewing sold the Seals to the Berry Brothers of Los Angeles in 1914, they swiftly informed him that their Seals would no longer use Ewing Field and would return to Recreation Park #2 in the city's Mission District. Ewing Field was not used by any professional baseball teams thereafter, but was rented occasionally for other large-scale events, most of which were also disrupted by weather. In 1938, the San Francisco Archdiocese sold the land for $150,000 to Heymann Homes, a developer who erected a 95-dwelling sub-division on the Ewing Field property in 1939-1940.

Demolished beginning in 11/1938.

PCAD id: 13869