Westwood Field

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Westwood Field was an baseball park and outdoor boxing venue located in Dayton, OH, USA located on Western Avenue (now James H. McGee Blvd.) It hosted summer outdoor boxing programs between roughly 1917 and 1933. It's most notable match was a World welterweight title match between Ted (Kid) Lewis and Jack Britton in 1917.

In baseball the park was the home of the Ohio League Dayton Triangles in 1916. It's most notable tenant were the Dayton Macros, a Negro baseball team who competed in the Negro National League in 1920 and 1926, while competing independently in other years between the 1910s and 1930s.