Carleton Davidson Stadium, Baseball stadium in Springfield, Ohio, US
Carleton Davidson Stadium is a baseball facility in Springfield, Ohio, designed to accommodate visitors with modern amenities. The grounds feature 156 chairback seats behind home plate, bleacher seating along the baselines, eight light towers for evening games, and accessible facilities including wheelchair seating areas and restrooms.
Carleton Davidson Stadium was built in 2003 and 2004 and dedicated on April 23, 2004; it hosted its first game the following day. The venue is named for Carleton F. Davidson, whose trust with Ruth T. Davidson funded it. It replaced the city's earlier baseball grounds and now serves Wittenberg University and the Champion City Kings.
The stadium hosts Wittenberg University Tigers and Champion City Kings college-level baseball, so the diamond is in use through the college season and the summer league. The field's short 320-foot lines and 390-foot center invite pull hitting, while the 350-foot alleys reward line-drive contact.
The field measures 320 feet down the lines, 350 to the power alleys and 390 to center, so the outfield is deepest straightaway. The facility seats 1,077 people, with chairback seats behind home plate and bleachers along the baselines. Eight light towers allow evening games.
The outfield measures 390 feet to center, 350 to the power alleys and 320 down the lines, which is why the park is known as a pitcher's park. The stadium seats 1,077 and was dedicated on April 23, 2004, hosting its first game the following day.
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