Lake Olmstead Stadium
Baseball park in Augusta, Georgia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lake Olmstead Stadium is a baseball park in Augusta, Georgia, United States. It was built between the 1994[2] and 1995 seasons[3] to replace Heaton Stadium on the same site[8] and can hold 4,822 people. The stadium also serves as an outdoor-arena style event venue.
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Location | 78 Milledge Road Augusta, GA 30904 |
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Coordinates | 33°29′42″N 82°0′2″W |
Owner | City of Augusta |
Operator | Agon Sports and Entertainment |
Capacity | 4,822 |
Record attendance | 5,828 (May 19, 2009)[1] |
Field size | Left Field: 330 feet Center Field: 400 feet Right Field: 330 feet |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Broke ground | September 7, 1994[2] |
Opened | April 10, 1995[3] |
Construction cost | $3 million[4] ($6 million in 2023 dollars[5]) |
Architect | Woodhurst Architects[6] |
Structural engineer | Cranston Engineering Group PC[7] |
General contractor | R. W. Allen & Associates[6] |
Tenants | |
Augusta GreenJackets (SAL) 1995–2017 Augusta Jaguars (Peach Belt) 2009–2018 |
Lake Olmstead Stadium was primarily used as the home field of the Augusta GreenJackets of the Class A South Atlantic League from 1995[3] to 2017, after which the GreenJackets moved to the new SRP Park across the Savannah River in North Augusta, South Carolina, in 2018.[9]
Lake Olmstead Stadium was the home field of the Augusta University Jaguars baseball team for most of their games from 2009 to 2013[10] and all of their games from 2014 to 2018;[11] however, the team elected to return to Jaguar Field on the Forest Hills campus full-time starting in the 2019 season.[12]