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Baseball venue in New Jersey
Bill Clarke Field
is a
baseball
venue in
Princeton, New Jersey
,
United States
. It is home to the
Princeton Tigers baseball
team of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Division I
Ivy League
. Opened in 1961 and renovated in 2005, the venue is named for
Bill “Boileryard” Clarke
, former Princeton head baseball coach. The field is a sunken diamond, with the playing surface lying lower than the surrounding seating areas.
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History
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The first game played at Bill Clarke Field was on March 31, 1962, in which Princeton lost 4?2 to
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
. As of the end of the 2006 season, Princeton had gone 422-277-6 (.603) at Clarke Field and finished with a losing record in only eight seasons.
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In 2005, the facility underwent renovations. As part of the renovations, the
infield
was redone and the
outfield
fences were moved closer to
home plate
. In 2006, outdoor
batting cages
surfaces were added past the
left field
fence.
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Naming
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The facility is named for former Princeton coach
Bill Clarke
.
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Clarke assisted the team from 1897 to 1901, while still playing in
Major League Baseball
. After retiring from professional baseball in 1905, Clarke returned to Princeton as the first paid head coach in 1909. He served two stints as the Tigers' head coach, one from 1909 to 1927 and the other from 1934 to 1944.
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Princeton was 564-322-10 (.642) under Clarke.
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Features
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In addition to the features involved in 2005 and 2006 renovations, the field has an electronic scoreboard,
public address system
, and
press box
. The field's seating areas, raised around the sunken diamond, consist of permanent seats on the
first-base
side and bleachers on the
third-base
line.
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