Dugan Field
Ken Dugan Field at Stephen Lee Marsh Stadium is a baseball venue located in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It is home to the Lipscomb Bisons college baseball team of the NCAA's Division I Atlantic Sun Conference[1] and the Nashville Outlaws of the collegiate summer Prospect League.[2] The facility has a capacity of 1,500 spectators.[3] The playing surface is named after Ken Dugan, Lipscomb baseball coach from 1960 to 1996 and winner of over 1,000 games as head of the program. The surrounding facility is named after Stephen Lee Marsh.[1]
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| Location | 4201 Granny White Pike Nashville, TN 37204 United States |
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| Coordinates | 36.102853°N 86.79913°W |
| Owner | Lipscomb University |
| Capacity | 1,500 |
| Field size | 330 ft. (LF, RF), 405 ft. (CF) |
| Surface | Natural grass with artificial turf halo around home plate |
| Scoreboard | Yes |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1991 |
| Renovated | 2005, 2007 |
| Construction cost | $1 million |
| Tenants | |
| Lipscomb Bisons (NCAA) (1991–present) Nashville Outlaws (PL) (2011) | |
History
Since the late 1940s, Lipscomb baseball played at a field next to Belmont Boulevard, an area close to Ken Dugan Field's modern location. This field was known as Onion Dell until 1984, when it was dedicated as Ken Dugan Field. When the baseball program moved nearby to a new, $1 million facility in 1991, the name was kept. On March 17, 2005, the facility was rechristened Ken Dugan Field at Stephen Lee Marsh Stadium.[1]
In 2005, as part of the venue's renaming, stadium lighting was installed. In 2007, $50,000 renovations added a warning track and an artificial turf halo around home plate.[1]
Dugan Field hosted the Atlantic Sun baseball tournament in 2010, 2011 and 2016.[4][5]
The Nashville Outlaws of the Prospect League began playing at Ken Dugan Field in 2011, after spending their inaugural 2010 season at Vanderbilt University's Hawkins Field.[2]
References
- "Dugan Field at Marsh Stadium". lipscombsports.com. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
- Boettcher, Jerome (May 24, 2011). "CityProperties Local baseball team needs new owners for long-term stability". The City Paper. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
The Outlaws already have a different homefield. They will play at Lipscomb’s Duggan Field.
- "Dugan Field". The Baseball Cube. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
- "Lipscomb to host A-Sun Baseball Tournament in 2010, 2011". lipscomb.edu. June 19, 2011. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
- "Atlantic Sun Recordbook – Baseball" (PDF). AtlanticSun.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 18, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.