Centennial Field
Stadium grandstands
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| Location | University Road Burlington, VT 05401 |
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| Coordinates | 44°28′53.96″N 73°11′15.56″W / 44.4816556°N 73.1876556°WCoordinates: 44°28′53.96″N 73°11′15.56″W / 44.4816556°N 73.1876556°W |
| Owner | City of Burlington VT |
| Operator | University of Vermont |
| Capacity | 4,415 |
| Field size | Left Field: 330 feet Center Field: 405 feet Right Field: 323 feet |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Broke ground | 1906 |
| Opened | April 17, 1906 |
| Renovated | 1922 |
| Expanded | 1995 |
| Architect | Levering & Garigues, Co. |
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Baseball Vermont Lake Monsters (NYPL) (1994–present) Vermont Catamounts (1906–1917, 1919–1942, 1946–1971, 1978–2009) Burlington Cardinals (NoL) (1935–1941 and 1946–1952) Burlington Athletics (1955) Vermont Reds (EL) (1984–1987) Vermont Mariners (EL) (1988) AEC Baseball Tournament (2003, 2005, 2006) |
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Centennial Field is the name of the baseball stadium at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont and is the home of the Vermont Lake Monsters of the New York Penn League (minor league), the Short Season Class A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics.
Beyond the left-field fence is the former home of the University of Vermont's men's and women's soccer teams as well as once serving as UVM's home field for its men's and women's lacrosse teams, and its football team (1900–1974).
The field takes its name, Centennial Field, from the fact that the land on which it was built was dedicated to its current purpose on July 6, 1904, at the conclusion of the three-day celebration of the 100th anniversary of UVM's first graduating class. Its first baseball game was on April 17, 1906 with UVM's 10–4 victory over the University of Maine. Larry Gardner was the first batter for UVM. Future-Boston Red Sox pitcher Ray Collins started the game for Vermont and threw the first pitch at the ballpark. Gardner and Collins are among 11 former Catamounts to reach the major leagues, the latest being Matt Duffy, who played on the most recent UVM teams in 2008 and 2009, and made his big league debut in 2015 for the Astros.
In addition to the baseball field, the adjacent soccer field was used by the University of Vermont football team until 1974, and UVM's men's and women's lacrosse teams in the 1990s through 2006. The school's men's soccer team played there from 1975 to 2011 and the women played there from 1995–2011 before moving to Virtue Field on campus. The Centennial Field soccer stands had 5,000 seats and drew America East record crowds during the 1989 postseason when UVM advanced to the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship East Regional Finals with wins over Yale and UConn. Vermont hosted the long-running Smith Barney Men's Soccer Classic at Centennial Field that featured many national powers including UCLA, Stanford, Old Dominion, San Francisco, New Mexico and North Carolina. Its recent women's soccer tournament has featured Indiana, Notre Dame and Villanova.
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