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The entrance of Joseph L. Bruno Stadium. The Joseph L. Bruno Stadium is a stadium located on the campus of Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York.It is the home field of the Tri-City ValleyCats minor league baseball team of the independent Frontier League and previously the New York–Penn League. [6]
Originally called Howard J. Lamade Memorial Field, the ballpark opened for the 1959 tournament. [3] Howard J. Lamade was the son of Grit newspaper founder Dietrick Lamade. [ 4 ] The younger Lamade was a vice president at Grit Publishing, and served on the board of directors for Little League Baseball in the 1950s. [ 2 ]
To build the playing field, 350 short tons (320 metric tons) of clay, and 5,000 short tons (4,500 metric tons) of sand were needed. The outfield contains 100,000 square feet (9,300 m 2 ) of sod. The infield is capable of draining 1 inch (25 mm) of rain per hour. while remaining playable, which means that the field only rarely has to be covered ...
The program was organized because Babe Ruth League, Inc. saw a need for a quality national softball program promoting the slightly different game of Softball, with its adjusted dimensions and measurements plus equipment. The softball program was designed to focus on all ability levels of young female athletes, providing them with the same ...
A baseball field, also called a ball field or baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played. The term can also be used as a metonym for a baseball park . The term sandlot is sometimes used, although this usually refers to less organized venues for activities like sandlot ball .
A 13U baseball parent from another organization told me last night that with team fees and travel expenses he spent 22,000 dollars for his son to play 13U baseball this past year.
Pesky's Pole is the name for the pole on the right field foul line, which stands 302 feet (92 m) from home plate, [70] the shortest outfield distance (left or right field) in Major League Baseball. [79] Like the measurement of the left-field line at Fenway Park, this has been disputed.
This is a list of most current US baseball stadiums. They are ordered by seating capacity , the maximum number of spectators the stadium can accommodate in baseball configuration. Venues with a capacity of at least 1,000 are included.