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The Dayton Dragons played their first baseball game at Fifth Third Field on April 27, 2000. In attendance was Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Johnny Bench , who caught the ceremonial first pitch. In their inaugural season, the Dragons managed to sell-out every home game of the 2000 season before the season even started.
Each year, along with Little League Volunteer Stadium, it hosts the Little League World Series. The playing field is two-thirds the size of a professional baseball field, with 60-foot (18.3 m) basepaths, a 46-foot (14 m) mound, and after modification in 2006, outfield fences at 225 ft (68.6 m), forming one-fourth of a true circle.
The intermediate division is the second of four Little League divisions by development. The pitching mound is 50 feet from home plate, and the base paths are 70 feet apart. This allows for a transition between the smaller field dimensions of Little League (46/60), and the standard field dimensions of the advanced leagues (60.5/90). [1]
The team's home park is Day Air Ballpark in Dayton, formerly (until 2020) known as Fifth Third Field. [5] During its first season, the Dragons set a Minor League Baseball Class-A single-season attendance record of 581,853.
The following year, a second league was formed in Williamsport, and Little League Baseball grew to become an international organization with nearly 200,000 teams in every U.S. state and more than 80 countries. [6] Kathryn "Tubby" Johnston Massar was the first woman to play in a Little League baseball game, in 1950.
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Stadium Capacity City State Home Team(s) League(s) 83: ShoreTown Ballpark: 9,588: Lakewood: New Jersey: Jersey Shore BlueClaws: South Atlantic League: 84: Tempe Diablo Stadium
In 1938, the city leased half of the park to a Baltimore businessman, who built Meadowbrook Park for an all-white minor league baseball team, the Greenville Spinners. The park burned down in 1972.