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It is also the first ballpark to ever receive the annual Digital Ballparks.com Ballpark Of The Year Award, which it was awarded in 2002. It is the first American baseball stadium to reach a total attendance of ten million without ever serving a team higher than AA.
Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All Major League Ballparks. Walker & Company. ISBN 0-8027-1562-1. Ritter, Lawrence (March 8, 1994). Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields. Studio. ISBN 978-0-14-023422-0. Leventhal, Josh (2000). Take Me out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present.
Before we get our first regular season pitch of the 2025 MLB season, there is spring training. Here's where those games will be played in 2025.
On April 3, 2013, it was announced that the chain LoanMart had signed a ten-year sponsorship and naming rights deal with the franchise, renaming the ballpark LoanMart Field. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Founded in 2002, [ 10 ] 1-800LoanMart is a direct financer [ 9 ] and lending company based in Encino . [ 10 ]
The original Phoenix Municipal Stadium was located at Central and Mohave streets, near downtown Phoenix. The ballpark opened in 1936 and had seating for around 3,000 spectators. [4] Lights were installed by 1937. [5]
Since then the stadium has seen many tenants come and go. An ongoing effort to build a new ballpark in Gastonia in 2021 produced CaroMont Health Park, home to the Gastonia Honey Hunters of the Atlantic League. [3] Sims Legion Park was further renovated between the 2021 and 2022 baseball seasons. [4]
The ballpark has a capacity of 3,750 people and opened in June, 1948. Peninsula War Memorial Stadium was designed by the legendary Branch Rickey as an affiliate for his Brooklyn Dodgers . The Newport News Dodgers won 3 Piedmont League Championships before Brooklyn moved to Los Angeles and the Dodgers were no more in 1958.
J. P. Small Memorial Stadium is a baseball park in Jacksonville, Florida.It is located in the Durkeeville community in northwest Jacksonville. Constructed in 1912 and rebuilt in 1936, it was the city's first municipal recreation field, and served as its primary baseball park before the construction of Wolfson Park in 1954.