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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. The grounds have been used for baseball since 1920, on what was Elihu Phinney 's farm.
After an extensive renovation, the new Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field was formally dedicated on September 13, 1996. [1] The project included new locker rooms , training rooms , clubhouse facilities, and 880 fixed chair-back seats .
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by a private foundation.It serves as the central collection and gathering space for the history of baseball in the United States displaying baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, honoring those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport.
Cullum Hall sits directly across the road from Doubleday Field, where the New York Yankees occasionally played exhibition games in the 1920s; [39] [40] cadet legend states that Babe Ruth once hit a home run off the roof of Cullum Hall, a distance of over 500 feet (150 m). This legend is unlikely given that Ruth was left-handed and Cullum Hall ...
Doubleday's men, admirers, and the state of New York erected a monument to him at Gettysburg. [16] There is a 7-foot (2.1 m) obelisk monument at Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried. [17] Doubleday Field is a 9,791-seat baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame. [18]
Doubleday Field, Cooperstown, New York. A League of Their Own, 1992 film (closing scenes) Durham Athletic Park, Durham, North Carolina. Bull Durham, 1988 film (many scenes) Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York. Roogie's Bump, [citation needed] Ernie Shore Field, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mr. Destiny, 1990 (several scenes) Fenway Park, Boston ...
Cooperstown was formerly served by the Cooperstown Municipal Airport, which was a two-runway facility fewer than two miles to the northwest of town center. That field closed in the 1960s. The village is now served by a small grass field in nearby Westville and a larger paved one-runway facility in Oneonta.
Doubleday Field, Cooperstown, New York, USA; baseball stadium; Doubleday Field, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York State, USA; a region of the academy; see Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field; Auburn Doubledays, single-A baseball team, from Auburn, New York State, USA