Park Name: Larry Mahaney Diamond Tenants: University of Maine Black Bears (NCAA Division I- America East Conference) Opened: 1984 Address: Long Road, Orono, Maine 04473 Dimensions: 330' (L), 400' (C), 330' (R) Former Tenants: Bangor Blue Ox (Northeast League) 1996-1997 Bangor Lumberjacks (Northeast League) 2003 The view from behind home plate at Mahaney Diamond. The view from down the first base line. Alfond Stadium, home of Black Bear football, looms over the left field wall. The pressbox at the top of the grandstand. Seating behind home plate is entirely made up of aluminum bleachers. The seating behind each dugout features blue fold-down plastic seats, added when the park hosted professional baseball in 2003. Wooden light stanchions rise up through the stands. The University of Maine baseball clubhouse and batting cages sit down the third base line. The clubhouse features a balcony overlooking the playing field. The playing surface is artificial turf, with large amounts of foul territory down the first and third base lines. The outfield wall is a chain link fence, with bushes behind it and retired numbers on a screen in front. The outfield wall makes sharp corners on either side of center field, and the scoreboard sits behind the left field fence. |
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