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Lexington Park was the name of a former Minor League Baseball park in St. Paul, Minnesota . It was the home of the St. Paul Saints from 1897 through 1956 , when it was replaced by the first version of Midway Stadium . It was on the block bounded by Lexington Parkway, University Avenue, Fuller and Dunlap. Home plate was originally in the southwest corner of the block. Following a fire in 1915, the grandstand was rebuilt with the plate repositioned to the northwest corner. The 6-decades-old ballpark did not quite go out in a wave of euphoria the way its Twin Cities cousin Nicollet Park did, but the Saints did manage to defeat the arch-rival Minneapolis Millers in the final game. Although demolished in the 1950's, elements of the park remain in existence to this day. A significant segment of the southwestern foundation can still be seen by the knowledgeable observer, and as late as the 1990's a grocery store on the site (since demolished) preserved the location of Lexington's home plate with a distinctively-shaped commemorative floor tile. The area is currently being redeveloped. An Aldi grocery store is one of the most recent additions to the site. According to Stew Thornley's 2006 book, a plaque that had once been afixed to the grocery store is now reinstated, at the TCF Bank branch building. REFERENCES
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