Handler Park

Park Name: Fred Handler Park at McGraw-Jennings Field

Tenants: St. Bonaventure University Bonnies (NCAA Division I- Atlantic 10 Conference)


Opened: 1958

Address: College Street, St. Bonaventure, New York 14788

Dimensions: 330' (L), 403' (C), 330' (R)


Former Tenants:

Olean Oilers (New York Collegiate Baseball League) 2012

Handler Park sits next to an observatory and flowering trees on the St. Bonaventure campus.

The view from behind home plate at Handler Park.

The view from down the first base line.

The view from down the third base line.

There are no permanent stands at Handler Park, just a large grass berm that wraps around from the left field corner to the first base dugout.

A small permanent press box and some overflow tents sit atop the berm behind home plate.

Fans bring their own chairs to set up along the hill.

In addition to chairs and blankets, fans also pull their cars up to the top of the hill on the third base side of the field and watch from their tailgates.

Handler Park features a wide area of foul territorry down the lines and in front of the chain link backstop. Campus buildings sit behind the ballpark.

Batting cages sit beside the field in the right field corner.

The visitor's bullpen sits in the right field corner of the park.

The Bonnies bullpen sits in the left field corner. Soccer and softball fields sit beyond the ballpark.

The outfield fence and the hills of the Allegheny mountains that act as a picturesque backdrop for a game.

The scoreboard sits behind the right field wall.

The St. Bonaventure University Bonnies on the field during a game at Fred Handler Park at McGraw-Jennings Field.