B.F.C. Whitehouse Field
Baseball venue in Harwich, Massachusetts From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
B.F.C. Whitehouse Field, or Whitehouse Field, is a baseball venue in Harwich, Massachusetts, home to the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL).
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| Address | 75 Oak Street |
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| Location | Harwich, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates | 41°41′34.80″N 70°03′56.9″W |
| Capacity | 4,000 |
| Field size | Left Field: 330 ft Center Field: 395 ft Right Field: 330 ft |
| Surface | Grass |
| Scoreboard | The 1998 scoreboard was replaced with a new scoreboard for the summer of 2021 and beyond. The 1998 scoreboard was Donated by Fay Vincent, Jr. in memory of Fay Vincent, Sr. |
| Opened | 1969 |
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| Harwich Mariners | |
Opened in 1969, Whitehouse Field was named for Mr. B.F.C. Whitehouse and was dedicated in July 1969 as part of Harwich's 275th anniversary celebration.[1][2] The ballpark was built on land adjacent to what is now Monomoy Regional High School, and features a deep outfield fence with a symmetrical configuration. It is accessed via an extended woodland trail that opens into the tree-ringed clearing where the field is located.[3][4]
As early as the 1920s, Harwich had a franchise in the CCBL, albeit originally a combined Chatham-Harwich team.[5] The Mariners became Harwich's own team in 1930,[6] and prior to 1969 played their home games at Harwich's Brooks Park. At the 1969 dedication ceremonies for Whitehouse Field, Mr. Whitehouse concluded his remarks by stoking Harwich's historic small-town border rivalry, turning to the Mariners players and exhorting, "Now go out there and beat Chatham!"[7]
In 1998, a new scoreboard was donated by former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, Jr., in memory of his father, Fay Vincent, Sr. The commissioner had been a longtime summer resident of Harwich and a fan of the Mariners and the CCBL, and wished to honor his late father who had been the baseball captain at Yale University in 1931.[8] The scoreboard was dedicated on July 6, 1998 as part of "Fay Vincent Night at Whitehouse Field",[9] and has been billed by the CCBL as being "the largest scoreboard in New England south of Fenway Park".[10] A 2008 grant from the Yawkey Foundation helped fund major upgrades to Whitehouse that included the installation of a new lighting system and protective netting.[11][12]
Whitehouse Field hosted the CCBL's annual all-star game and home run derby festivities in 1992, 2002, 2012 and 2018,[2][13][14][15] and has seen the Mariners claim CCBL championships in 1983, 1987, 2008 and 2011.[16][17][18] The ballpark has been the summertime home of dozens of future major leaguers such as Kevin Millar,[19] Josh Donaldson,[20] and DJ LeMahieu.[21]
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