Earl Lorden Field

Park Name: Earl Lorden Field

Tenants: University of Massachusetts Amherst Minutemen (NCAA Division I- Atlantic 10 Conference)


Opened: 1971

Address: 200 Commonwealth Avenue, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

Dimensions: 330' (L), 400' (C), 330' (R)

The view from behind home plate at Earl Lorden Field.

The view from down the first base line.

The view from down the third base line. The university's hockey arena sits behind the right field fence.

The grandstand at Earl Lorden Field, made up of three large separate bleacher sections behind home plate.

Bushes grow up through the bleachers on the third base side.

The pressbox sits atop the first base dugout, rather than behind home plate. The Mullins Center, home to UMass basketball, towers behind the field of play.

Dedication plaques for the field are posted on the home dugout on the third base side of the field.

The dugouts at Earl Lorden Field feature a large concrete pad in front of them and the field features a fairly large amount of foul territory.

Concessions are served out of a mobile cart among the trees behind home plate.

Batting cages are located just outside the fence in the left field corner. Bullpens are in foul territory.

Shrubbery hangs over the outfield fence and into the field of play, reaching out to grab potential home runs.

The scoreboard sits behind the left field wall.

The UMass Minutemen on the field during a game at Earl Lorden Field.