This site has been a location for baseball and other sports for nearly 100 years. At different times it was known as Barrs Field, the Myrtle Avenue Ball Park, Joseph H. Durkee Memorial Athletic Field, and since 1980, James P. Small Memorial Stadium. The current steel and brick grandstand has basically the same appearance it had when it was originally designed and constructed in 1935. For twenty years this structure served as the center of professional baseball until a new municipal stadium, the Gator Bowel, opened in 1955. Jacksonville was once the center of organized baseball in Florida.