Football Fields with Baseball Diamonds

[cajunaggie08]

I cant find a shot of Mile High Stadium in the football configuration with the baseball diamond visible, but here is how the layout was when they shared a stadium with the Rockies. An entire section of the stadium just moved back to create room for left field.

 

 

[Lenny Dykstra]

I have a weird obsession with this topic. Heres a good shot of some action on the Candlestick dirt.

 

 

Something about football on the diamond just looks so cool and hardcore to me. I miss when you could expect Sundays in September to be scattered with these games and they just played and nobody complained

 

 

 

 

 

 

[eastfirst107]

Marlins Park

[Pharos04]

I know Fenway was already posted but that looked like the AFL days in the 60s.  Here's a more recent one

 

 

And then some Thanksgiving games were played after the ND game

[DC in Da House w/o a Doubt]

23 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

The same stadium, then called Pac Bell Park, hosting the the XFL's San Francisco Demons in 2001.  The baseball diamond was not visible.  But we get a good view of the temporary seating in right field.

 

Surprisingly good crowd

[eriqjaffe]

Here's Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati...

 

And more recently, here's NIU playing a home game at Guaranteed Rate Field.  I think it was the first event the park hosted after the name change - there's no other signage visible in the park, but check out the top of the third base dugout:

[DC in Da House w/o a Doubt]

College football at the BoB aka Chase Field

 

 

 

St. Louis Rams playing at Busch Stadium:

 

[Ferdinand Cesarano]

9 minutes ago, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:

23 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

Surprisingly good crowd

The Demons had a really good operation, and great fans.  This was doubly impressive considering that playing in San Francisco was a second choice, as the team was originally intended to be the San Jose Demons. More important, they had the league's best logo.

Here is a great broadcast from that park of a mid-season game against the New York / New Jersey Hitmen on TNN (now Spike TV).

 

This broadcast has none of the crass elements that characterised the XFL's first couple of weeks, and there was no Jesse Ventura-led silliness in the booth. The game is called by Craig Minervini with analysis from Bob Golic. This is a solid and enjoyable broadcast of a well-played game.  A fun aspect of this broadcast is provided by the participation of the Demons' regular starting quarterback, Arena League veteran Mike Pawlawski, who was out with an injury.  He was on the Demons' sideline, but he provided commentary for the entire game along with the guys in the booth.

[DC in Da House w/o a Doubt]

Here's kinda the opposite: a baseball field at a football stadium (Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball at US Bank Stadium)

 

[kroywen]

Here's a unique one, from my alma mater, Fordham University - Jack Coffey Field:

 

 

There's a grandstand for the football stadium on one sideline of the football field, and the football field is the outfield of the baseball field. There's a smaller stand for baseball games around the diamond, which can be seen in the distance.

 

Here it is in baseball mode, with the football grandstand off in left field:

 

 

And from above, this is how the "complex" looks:

 

 

A strange, but efficient set-up.

[radchad]

Sorry to continue to derail this thread with the other kind of football, but I have to mention what is undoubtedly the worst stadium in MLS right now:

[Ferdinand Cesarano]

42 minutes ago, radchad said:

Sorry to continue to derail this thread with the other kind of football, but I have to mention what is undoubtedly the worst stadium in MLS right now:

 

 

That's not an MLS game.  That's Chelsea vs. PSG.   That game took place before NYCFC were founded.  In the games played at Yankee Stadium then, the Yankees had no trouble removing the pitcher's mound.

The configuration for NYCFC looks like this.

 

Notice that the pitcher's mound has not been removed, which makes the pitch narrower than it needs to be.

The fact that the Yankees refuse to remove the pitcher's mound for the matches of the team that they partially own is annoying; and I have complained about it on several occasions here and elsewhere.  But lately I have stopped because NYCFC have the league's second best home record.  Also, the team currently sits fifth in the league in attendance, after having finished third in each of its first two seasons.  

All of that is to say that the stadium is not a problem.  In fact, playing in a historic location that is so easily reached by the subway definitely helps the team.

[radchad]

51 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

 

That's not an MLS game.  That's Chelsea vs. PSG.   That game took place before NYCFC were founded.  In the games played at Yankee Stadium then, the Yankees had no trouble removing the pitcher's mound.

The configuration for NYCFC looks like this.

 

Notice that the pitcher's mound has not been removed, which makes the pitch narrower than it needs to be.

The fact that the Yankees refuse to remove the pitcher's mound for the matches of the team that they partially own is annoying; and I have complained about it on several occasions here and elsewhere.  But lately I have stopped because NYCFC have the league's second best home record.  Also, the team currently sits fifth in the league in attendance, after having finished third in each of its first two seasons.  

All of that is to say that the stadium is not a problem.  In fact, playing in a historic location that is so easily reached by the subway definitely helps the team.

 

I'm aware that's Chelsea vs. PSG.  I chose that photo because it best showed the location of the diamond relative to the pitch.

No one disputes the fact that Yankee Stadium is historic and is in a great location.  But the sightlines from the seats near the 3rd base line have to be less than ideal, and as you mentioned, the pitch is narrowed to avoid the pitcher's mound.  Yankee Stadium is a wonderful ballpark.  Hell, I imagine it would be a fun place to watch a few exhibition soccer matches each year.  But surely with 17 home matches in a season the shortcomings become more noticeable.  And sure, a winning team makes everything more tolerable, but if we gave every successful team a pass on their small aesthetic missteps, what would we have left to complain about on the forum anymore? 

[buzzcut]

Target Field is hosting it's first football game this weekend, and here is what the field looks like:

 

[wildfan2440]

More Minnesota Pics!

 

[Ben in LA]

Baseball at Alamodome...I would’ve loved to have seen this in person. Right field though!

[kroywen]

3 hours ago, Ben in LA said:

Baseball at Alamodome...I would’ve loved to have seen this in person. Right field though!

If MLB ever wanted a team to even temporarily play at the Alamodome, they would've needed to make all the seats in the first tier in RF retractable (just like the Metrodome). That RF is a complete joke, and wouldn't have been viable even for a couple seasons' worth of home games.

 

Obviously you couldn't sell the seats in the RF upper deck either, since they wouldn't be able to see half the field. Maybe for playoff games at a steeply discounted rate, but they would've needed to be tarped off during the regular season, a la the Metrodome.

[Proc]

Lions games at Tiger Stadium....

[FrankCostanza]

Not a great picture but this was taken before a Blue Jays exhibition game at Taylor Field in Regina in 1989.  Manager Jimy Williams is standing by home plate (obviously covered).  In the background you can see the pitcher's mound as well as the (very temporary) outfield fence.

 

[AstroCree]

17 hours ago, buzzcut said:

Target Field is hosting it's first football game this weekend, and here is what the field looks like:

 

So why are they hosting a football game in a baseball stadium when there's a stadium made for football a few blocks down?