Roosevelt Stadium (Jersey City)

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Roosevelt Stadium was a baseball park at Droyer's Point in Jersey City, New Jersey. It opened in April 1937 and hosted high-minor league baseball, 15 major league baseball games, plus championship boxing matches, top-name musical acts, an annual championship drum and bugle corps competition known as "The Dream", important regional high school football and even soccer matches. It was demolished in 1985.

The stadium which seated 24,000 was a Works Progress Administration project, named after American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, as was the similar named and smaller Roosevelt Stadium in adjacent Union City. Roosevelt Stadium was the home of International League level Minor League baseball, and played host to the Brooklyn Dodgers for 15 home games in 1956 and 1957.

For boxing it put on fewer programs compared to it's nearby Union City companion, putting on two bouts of Max Baer in 1940. It's most notable program was the 1948 World middleweight title bout between Marcel Cerdan and Tony Zale.