Doubleday Field

Doubleday Field is a baseball stadium in Cooperstown, New York named for Abner Doubleday and located two village blocks from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

This article is about the stadium in Cooperstown. For the home stadium of Army Black Knights baseball, see Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field. For the home field of the Auburn Doubledays, see Falcon Park.
Doubleday Field
LocationCooperstown, New York
Capacity9,791
Field sizeLeft field: 296ft
Left-center field: 336ft
Center field: 390ft
Right-center field: 350ft
Right field: 312ft
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Opened1920
Expanded1924, 1939
Tenants
MLB Hall of Fame game (1943-2008)

Baseball Hall of Fame Classic (2009-present)

Cooperstown Hawkeyes (PGCBL) (2010–2013)

The grounds have been used for baseball since 1920, on what was Elihu Phinney's farm. A wooden grandstand was built in 1924, later replaced by a steel and concrete grandstand built in 1939 by the Works Project Administration. Subsequent expansion has increased seating capacity to 9,791 spectators.

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