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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
Magazine. When the city had no team in 1981, the stadium was used for rock and roll concerts.
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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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Falcon Park was a typical old wooden grandstand-type facility from 1927 until 1995. The original park's demolition began seconds after the final out of the final game of the 1994 season, with a
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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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This article is about the minor league baseball stadium in Auburn, New York. For the
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The current, rebuilt facility opened in 1995 and holds 2,800 people. As of 2004, the venue's full name is
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851:Buildings and structures in Auburn, New York
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831:Rochester Area Ballparks – Falcon Park
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693:"Falcon Park Stadium in Auburn, NY"
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821:Auburn Doubledays – Official site
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18:Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park
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876:Sports venues completed in 1995
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409:collegiate summer baseball
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135:Center Field: 400 feet
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393:Major League Baseball
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137:Right Field: 330 feet
84:42.9416°N 76.585232°W
33:Falcon Baseball Field
796:The Citizen (Auburn)
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314:International League
133:Left Field: 330 feet
204:Highland Associates
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318:MacArthur Stadium
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429:Ken Boswell
381:(1982–1995)
357:(1972–1977)
351:(1967–1971)
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343:Auburn Mets
339:(1958–1961)
241:Falcon Park
194:$ 3,145,000
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62:Coordinates
39:Falcon Park
845:Categories
769:Auburn Pub
593:References
509:Roy Oswalt
504:Tug McGraw
479:Todd Jones
469:Aaron Hill
439:Ike Delock
434:Jim Bouton
411:for 2021.
277:Background
262:team. The
130:Field size
75:76°35′07″W
72:42°56′30″N
725:August 3,
544:Juan Soto
494:Phil Linz
295:bulldozer
201:Architect
630:(1992).
610:(1997).
419:Notable
253:baseball
121:Capacity
110:Operator
48:Location
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703:May 15,
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328:All of
312:of the
245:stadium
217:Tenants
181: (
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375:(1980)
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363:(1978)
173:Opened
637:(PDF)
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324:Teams
243:is a
232:PGCBL
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100:Owner
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