Hi Corbett Field, Baseball stadium in Tucson, Arizona, United States
Hi Corbett Field is a large baseball stadium in Tucson with a natural grass playing surface and a capacity of about 9,500 spectators. The venue features a variety of seating from box seats to bleachers and is framed by the Santa Catalina Mountains to the north and the Rincon Mountains to the east.
Baseball was first played at the site in 1937, when it opened as Randolph Municipal Baseball Park. It was renamed in 1951 for Hiram "Hi" Corbett, the state senator who persuaded Bill Veeck to move the Cleveland Indians' spring training from Florida to Tucson in 1947. Cleveland trained there through 1992; the Colorado Rockies used it from 1993 to 2010, and the University of Arizona Wildcats moved in for 2012.
Hi Corbett was renamed in 1951 for Hiram "Hi" Corbett, the state senator who persuaded Bill Veeck to move the Cleveland Indians' spring camp from Florida to Tucson in 1947. Veeck, who owned a ranch in Tucson, said he left Florida to avoid its Jim Crow laws, and he and players sometimes rode his horses after games.
The ballpark sits in the Gene C. Reid Park complex between Broadway Boulevard and 22nd Street in midtown Tucson, about 1.1 km from downtown. The diamond is aligned southwest from home plate to center field, at roughly 2,480 feet (755 m) above sea level. Two ancillary practice fields serve spring training but have no provision for spectators.
The first college night game in Tucson took place there in 1940 before the University of Arizona built their own stadium on campus in 1967. The field also features a lighted batting cage with four tunnels where players can train year-round.
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