Dudy Noble Field, Polk–DeMent Stadium
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| Full name | Dudy Noble Field at Polk–Dement Stadium |
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| Location | 145 Lakeview Drive, Starkville, MS, United States |
| Owner | Mississippi State University |
| Operator | Mississippi State University |
| Capacity | 7,600 seats |
| Record attendance | 15,586 (current NCAA on-campus record) |
| Field size | LF: 330, LC: 376, CF: 390, RC: 374, RF: 326 |
| Surface | Tiflawn & Tifway II Bermuda Grass |
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| Mississippi State Bulldogs (1967-Present) | |
Dudy Noble Field at Polk-Dement Stadium is a baseball facility on the campus of Mississippi State University and is the home of the Bulldogs Baseball Team. DNF-PDS has been the setting of Southeastern Conference Tournaments, NCAA Regional and Super Regional Championships, and it holds the current NCAA on-campus single-game attendance record at 15,586. It is known for the Left Field Lounge and the best fans in college baseball.
Mississippi State has been playing baseball at the present stadium site for 40 years, dating back to April 3, 1967 and a 5-3 Mississippi State win over Illinois Wesleyan.
What today stands as one of college baseball's top facilities grew in large part from the labors of Tom D'Armi, chief assistant coach to longtime Bulldog skipper Paul Gregory. When the tin-roofed grandstand and bleachers seating more than 2,000 were moved to the stadium's present site in the mid-1960s, it became D'Armi's task to "build" the new field. The task of hauling in and leveling top soil, planting and nurturing the turf, building the bullpens, placing signs on the outfield fence and planting the cedar trees beyond the outfield fence, fell to D'Armi. The hard work didn't go unrecognized. The field was subsequently honored by the U.S. Groundskeeper's Association as the nation's best maintained athletic field.
The facility was constructed on schedule by W.G. Yates & Sons of Philadelphia, Miss.
The Bulldog Club, MSU's athletic fund-raising body, shouldered a $2 million bonding program to account for the biggest portion of the project, with the remainder financed by alumni and friends through the sale of $1,000, $500 and $250 chairback seats, honorary deeds to plots of Dudy Noble Field turf, and other general donations.
For the book, "Inside Dudy Noble, A Celebration of Mississippi State Baseball", MSU alumnus John Grisham wrote an introduction about his time at MSU and in the Left Field Lounge.
The infield and portions of the adjoining outfield areas have in recent years been resodded, the infield dirt replaced, and the pitcher's mound rebuilt.
The green padding on the facing of the stadium wall was replaced prior to the 2002 season, and a new flooring material has been installed in both dugouts and the tunnels leading to them. The Bulldog locker room has been completely recarpeted, improved lighting added and new lockers installed, one of many projects funded by the four-year-old MSU Dugout Club.
Early in the 2004 season a speaker system was added near the concession stand area, while a new state-of-the-art scoreboard/message center was installed in the middle of the season beyond the existing scoreboard.
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