Huggins-Stengel Field, baseball field in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

Huggins-Stengel Field is a baseball field in St. Petersburg originally built in 1925 as spring training grounds for the New York Yankees. The grass diamond with simple wooden structures nearby has maintained its original size and basic appearance over the decades.

The field began as Yankees training grounds in 1925 but was abandoned during World War II and resumed in 1946. After the Yankees departed in 1961, the New York Mets trained there from 1962 to 1987, followed briefly by the Baltimore Orioles from 1992 to 1995.

The field was renamed Huggins-Stengel Field in 1963, when the newly created New York Mets took over Crescent Lake and brought Casey Stengel with them. It honors Miller Huggins, the Yankees manager who christened the site in 1925 and whose name was given to the field in 1931, and Stengel, who managed both the Yankees and the Mets. Old clubhouse remnants, including a wooden locker and photographs, are still visible.

The field sits inside Crescent Lake Park, with a chain-link fence separating the diamond from the lake's edge. Seating is limited to two sets of bleachers, and the old clubhouses now serve as offices for TASCO, a local youth arts and sports program. The turf keeps its original dimensions, neither raised nor lowered like many renovated fields.

Only two players are known to have hit a ball from the field into nearby Crescent Lake: Babe Ruth with the Yankees and Dave Kingman with the Mets. Ruth once refused to play outfield because he saw alligators sunbathing along the water's edge.