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Your favorite college baseball stadium?

justbaseballjustbaseball10,000+ posts
OK, other than your son's home field or Rosenblatt (gotcha TPM! Wink), what has been your favorite college stadium? Why?

Mine would be Baylor's. Its nearly brand new, good sight lines and comfortable seating. It looks out over a river and is quite "collegiate." The fans are "into it" and pretty rough on the visitors and parents...until the game is over when they change back into wonderful people who will be happy to give you a ride to the local Denny's. Big Grin OK, that was sort of a cheap shot...but they are quite friendly once the game is over.
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piaa_umppiaa_ump5,000+ posts
Plainsman Park, Auburn, Alabama.

just plain beautiful.......

Once voted the finest college field in the nation..(2003 or so??)..The official name is Samford Stadium-Hitchcock Field at Plainsman Park...........but its just plainsman park to me.....My dad was an Auburn Plainsman....Before the Tiger nickname.....


WAR EAGLE!
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K KCBaseball100+ posts
Come by Baum stadium at The University of Arkansas. Average attendance around 7,000- 8,000 fans (second highest in the US). This season the twelve sky-boxes are being expanded to twenty-one sky-boxes from foul pole to foul pole. Chairback seating, great student section, wide concourse area and concessions behind the seats. An atmosphere you just can't beat. The fans really get behind the team.

Baum Stadium
H Homerun041,000+ posts
The Sunken Diamond at Stanford is a great place to watch college baseball.

The funniest place is Sacramento State, went there to check out some college teams and watched a game where the Sacramento fans were supporting their team from a multi-level parking structure just beyond left field. They were heckling the left and center fielders from the parking structure; the coolest part was the students using their “engineering” skills in lower the kegs down to the low levels when the school police came by!
B BoomerIL1,000+ posts
O.K., are you ready.....Southern Illinois University - The Salukis'

Close your eyes......and picture an old minor league park with wooden outfield fences, with advertising painted on them. From the batting area cage around home plate, down both foul lines running past the dugouts is the stands that have white picket fencing about thigh high going to the outfield fences. The bullpens are in there as well. The field grass is pristine, like at Augusta, and the infield dirt is just spectacular. Along the rightfield area is a grassy knoll that runs the length of the rightside, and it has huge trees behind that for shade.

When the players are on the field you only hear, chatter, birds, the 'snap' of the catchers mitt, the "ting" of the bat, and the cheers of the fans. No cars, planes, trains, nothing else.

PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!
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H Homerun041,000+ posts
JBB - being that I was there Saturday afternoon, I heard it was much livelier on Friday night and the visiting team had to pull their underclassman leftfielder who had made a error!

I also heard that Chico State being in an independent pro league field used to be very eventful on Friday nights before the banned Alcohol at college baseball games.
S SpringLions0710+ posts
Well...it isn't my home field and it isn't Rosenblatt. BLINN COLLEGE in Brenham, Texas! Ha, kidding. It has to be one of the finer junior college fields around IMO.

In all seriousness, my 2 favorites are really polar opposites in terms of a rivalry standpoint. The stadium at the University of Texas has always been great, and with renovations for the upcoming season, I can't wait to see it. The second, of all places would be Olsen Field at Texas A&M. A lot of high school playoff games are there so we really love it. It's a beautiful field.
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