Doubleday Field
Historic baseball field in Cooperstown, New York / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the stadium in Cooperstown. For the home stadium of Army Black Knights baseball, see Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field. For the home field of the Auburn Doubledays, see Falcon Park.
Doubleday Field is a baseball stadium in Cooperstown, New York named for Abner Doubleday and located two village blocks from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Location | Cooperstown, New York |
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Capacity | 9,791 |
Field size | Left field: 296ft Left-center field: 336ft Center field: 390ft Right-center field: 350ft Right field: 312ft |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Opened | 1920 |
Expanded | 1924, 1939 |
Tenants | |
MLB Hall of Fame game (1943-2008)
Baseball Hall of Fame Classic (2009-present) Cooperstown Hawkeyes (PGCBL) (2010–2013) |
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The grounds have been used for baseball since 1920, on what was Elihu Phinney's farm. A wooden grandstand was built in 1924, later replaced by a steel and concrete grandstand built in 1939 by the Works Project Administration.[1] Subsequent expansion has increased seating capacity to 9,791 spectators.[2]