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and go" proposition in Auburn. When the city had no team in 1957, the stadium was used as an auto racing speedway for children. The kids raced go-kart-type vehicles called microds on a one-tenth mile oval built on the ball diamond's infield. The races drew large crowds and the enterprise was featured in an article in Life
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Permanent lights were first erected at Falcon Park in 1940, although some temporary construction lights were put in place in order to accommodate some night baseball in 1938. Before the stability of the present Auburn
Doubledays franchise, professional minor league baseball was somewhat of a "come
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Falcon Park was originally built in 1927 on the same site which currently houses the 1995 reconstructed facility. The stadium is called Falcon Park because it was built by a fraternal organization in Auburn called the Polish
Falcons. The Polish Falcons owned the stadium until 1959, when the local
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minor league franchise purchased it. The City of Auburn purchased both the stadium and the franchise in 1981 by assuming the former team's unpaid debts.
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820:Rochester Area Ballparks – Falcon Park
636:Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
185:($ 6.29 million in 2023 dollars)
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682:"Falcon Park Stadium in Auburn, NY"
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850:Minor league baseball venues
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124:Center Field: 400 feet
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370:(1982–1995)
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230:Falcon Park
183:$ 3,145,000
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51:Coordinates
28:Falcon Park
834:Categories
758:Auburn Pub
582:References
498:Roy Oswalt
493:Tug McGraw
468:Todd Jones
458:Aaron Hill
428:Ike Delock
423:Jim Bouton
400:for 2021.
266:Background
251:team. The
119:Field size
64:76°35′07″W
61:42°56′30″N
714:August 3,
533:Juan Soto
483:Phil Linz
284:bulldozer
190:Architect
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599:(1997).
408:Notable
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110:Capacity
99:Operator
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317:All of
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206:Tenants
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