Baseball Place is the location of Toronto's first professional baseball field, built in 1885.

For many years the little lane on the west side of the Downtown Toyota building sporting a ‘Baseball Place’ street sign. This was the entrance to Toronto’s first professional ballpark, the Toronto Baseball Grounds (built in 1885), and home to the city’s first professional baseball championship (1887). It later became knows as Sunlight Park, because of its closeness to the Lever Brothers Sunlight Soap Works. Seating capacity in the stadium was 2,200 people, and admission was as low as 25 cents. The site was abandoned in 1896, when its home team, the Torontos, moved to Lamport Stadium in west Toronto. (Source: Ron Fletcher, South Riverdale Lives and Legends)

Interesting facts about Riverside...
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• Three-piece public art installation celebrates the theme of TIME
• Baseball Place is the location of Toronto's first professional baseball field, built in 1885
• The Opera House is one of Toronto's longest operating live music theatres
• In the 1890s, the Broadview Hotel housed a grand piano in its tower
• "Cinderella Man", Russel Crowe and Renee Zellwegger's great depression drama transformed the district in 2004
• E.J. Lennox, architect of the Old City Hall and Casa Loma built the 1913 Postal Station 'G', now the Ralph Thornton Centre