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Marlins First Pitch at Marlins Park, April 4, 2012
Marlins Park on Opening Day 2012.

Marlins Park is a baseball park in the Miami, Florida neighborhood of Little Havana that is home to the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball. Before Marlins Park opened in 2012, the team, then known as the Florida Marlins, played home games at the venue now known as Hard Rock Stadium. Marlins Park is located on the former site of the Orange Bowl Stadium.


Images for kids

  • Dolphin Stadium baseball diamond

    The Marlins' former home at what was then Dolphin Stadium was primarily a football stadium, shown prepping for a Dolphins game with gridlines over the diamond in August 2007.

  • Marlins Park north side

    LoanDepot Park is an abstract, contemporary building which combines baseball with art and the essence of Miami.

  • Marlins Park parking garage wall tiles

    Pastel, Miami-Deco-influenced wall tiles in 4 main parking garages connect the facility to its small-scaled, Little Havana environs

  • Marlins Park mosaic walkways

    The colorful ballpark has artwork such as tiled walkways on the front plaza by kinetic-op artist Carlos Cruz-Diez

  • Marlins Stadium near completion 3

    An LED show illuminates the super columns during night games, and a rubber membrane lining the roof reduces heat-island effect.

  • MarlinPark

    Panorama of LoanDepot Park

  • Marlins Park windows open

    The east side with the windows retracted

  • Marlins Park home run feature NFC

    The Marlins' $2.5 million home run sculpture. The right half of its base also formed part of "The Bermuda Triangle" quirk in the outfield fence between 2012 and 2016

  • BudClevelander

    The Budweiser Bar and The Clevelander in left field, to the left of the HR feature (not seen)

  • Side view of the home run structure at Marlins Park

    A side view of the home run structure at LoanDepot Park

  • Marlins Park column

    One of the columns at LoanDepot Park that supports the roof when the roof is opened

  • Baseball in Motion

    Baseball in Motion by Dominic Pangborn

  • MarlinsConstruction

    The super-columns are all nearly complete, with one crossbeam already in place, which will support the retractable roof, February 6, 2010

  • Construction7-2-10

    The site on July 2, 2010. The interior bowl is being completed on the west side, from a view at the outfield

  • RoofConstruction

    The site on November 6, 2010. The main center roof being constructed

  • Miami Marlins Ballpark construction-February 2011

    February 15, 2011

  • Part of the Miami Marlins new ballpark, February 2011

    Adjacent parking structure on February 15, 2011

  • Marlinsmarch

    The site two weeks before completion of the final roof panel on March 13, 2011

  • Miami Ballpark August Construction Update

    The site on August 13, 2011, as seen from the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) traveling east

  • Miami Ballpark August 2011

    Construction on August 25, 2011

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: LoanDepot Park para niños

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