Newman Outdoor Field is a baseball stadium in Fargo, North Dakota. It is located on the campus of North Dakota State University and is the home of the independent league Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks (American Association) baseball team and the North Dakota State Bison baseball team. The 4,513 seat facility was known as "The Nest" when it opened in 1996. In 1998, naming rights were sold to Newman Outdoor Advertising for $1.5 million. The local Architect Firm was R.L. Engebretson P.C. working with RedHawks GM John Dittrich and Assistant GM Tim Flakoll and City of Fargo leaders.
The stadium contains the Maury Wills Museum in honor of the former Major League Baseball player who worked for the RedHawks as a coach and a radio analyst.
The first number retired at the stadium was the #8 worn by hometown hero Roger Maris when he played for the Fargo-Moorhead Twins in the 1950s. The outfield distances replicate those of Yankee stadium where Maris made history.
| Events and tenants | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Lewis and Clark Park |
Host of the NoL All-Star Game Newman Outdoor Field 1999 |
Succeeded by Yogi Berra Stadium |
| Preceded by CommunityAmerica Ballpark |
Host of the NoL All-Star Game Newman Outdoor Field 2007 |
Succeeded by Canwest Park |
| Current ballparks in the American Association | ||
|---|---|---|
| North Division | Central Division | South Division |
| Midway Stadium | CommunityAmerica Ballpark | Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium |
| Newman Outdoor Field | Haymarket Park | Cohen Stadium |
| Shaw Park | Lawrence-Dumont Stadium | QuikTrip Park |
| Sioux Falls Stadium | Lewis and Clark Park | Uni-Trade Stadium |
| U.S. Steel Yard | ||
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Coordinates: 46°53′54.56″N 96°48′15.37″W / 46.8984889°N 96.8042694°W / 46.8984889; -96.8042694
Famous quotes containing the words newman, outdoor and/or field:
“Can you read my mind? Do you know what it is that you do to me?”
—David Newman (b. 1937)
“Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice on. I thought that they might as well hang at once all who need to go through such exercises in so new a country, where there is nothing to hinder their living an outdoor life. Better omit Blair, and take the air.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When it had long since outgrown his purely medical implications and become a world movement which penetrated into every field of science and every domain of the intellect: literature, the history of art, religion and prehistory; mythology, folklore, pedagogy, and what not.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)