Park Name: Rogers Park Field Tenants: Danbury Westerners (New England Collegiate Baseball League) Opened: 1960 Address: 101 Memorial Drive, Danbury, Connecticut 06810 The view from behind home plate at Rogers Park. The main grandstand sits next to the home dugout on the third base side and features plastic bleacher seating. A small bleacher section and some picnic tables run along the first base line. Rogers Park Middle School stands behind the ballpark. Fans set up their own chairs behind the outfield fence at Rogers Park. The wall is taller in right field where it runs up against a street. The field features a unique double backstop. Players sit behind the chainlink backstop while a fence and a huge net separate the crowd from the field of play. The concessions are housed in a red barn behind the stands, part of the team's Western identity as Danbury is the team farthest west in the New England league. |