Skip Wilson Field is a baseball stadium in Ambler, Pennsylvania. It is the home field of the Temple Owls baseball team. The stadium holds 1,000 spectators and opened in 2004. It is named after former Owls baseball coach James "Skip" Wilson.
Temple played their first game at the field on March 25, 2004 and beat University of the Sciences by a score of 6 to 2. Four other projected home openers had been canceled due to either bad weather or poor field conditions.
The field was originally called Temple's Ambler Field in reference to its location at Temple's Ambler campus. The university began to refer to the ball-field as Skip Wilson Field in 2006. On April 28, 2007, Temple University-Ambler celebrated “Skip Wilson Day" when the university officially dedicated Skip Wilson Field at Ambler in honor of the coach.
Prior to Skip Wilson Field, Temple baseball played its home games at Erny Field at Mount Pleasant Avenue and Michener Street in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia. Erny Field is the current home of the Arcadia University baseball team.
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