Veteran's Field

Infobox Baseball Stadium
stadium_name = Veteran's Field
nickname =


location = Route 28 Chatham Center, Chatham, Massachusetts
broke_ground = 1920
opened = 1920
closed = Open
demolished = N/A
owner = City of Chatham
operator = Chatham Athletics Association Inc.
surface = Grass
construction_cost = $0 USD;
architect =
former_names = None
tenants = Chatham Athletics (Cape Cod League)
seating_capacity = 2,000 (can be expanded to 8,500)
dimensions = Left Field - 325 ft
Center Field - 385 ft
Right Field - 314 ft
Backstop - 30 ft

Veteran's Field is the home field of the Chatham A's baseball team. It is located on Depot Road in Chatham, Massachusetts, USA, on Cape Cod.

tadium history

Veteran's Field has a capacity of approximately 2,000 people; however, much of the seating is informal around the perimeter of the field on grass or lawn chairs and the park can accommodate close to 8,500 people informally. This is achieved because of where Veteran's Stadium is situated. The park sits in a natural bowl which forms a natural stadium around the stadium in addition to the permanent seating. Admission to Veteran's Field is free; however, to offset this are donations and a raffle held by the A's for small prizes.

The stadium originally utilized a local high school building adjacent to the field as a clubhouse area for the Athletics. However with its closure the team has been left without a formal clubhouse forcing players to change in their cars. The loss of the old school building also eliminated the stadium's bathroom facilities as well necessitating portable toilets being placed on the first base side of the field. Night games were first played in 1963 at Veteran's Field.

Veteran's Field is also used by local highschool baseball teams and local soccer teams during the A's offseason. The field also features a play area with a wooden playground on the first base side for children to utilize during the games.

Lately, however, the adjacent high school has been replaced by a community center, and the portable restrooms have been replaced by a new bath house, part of a slight face lift of the field that included a new concession stand and a recently installed playground, replacing the old wooden set that had been an unofficial trademark of the field.

The field sits in the town between Depot Road (beyond the right center field hill) which houses Chatham's local fire department overlooking the field, and Main Street (behind the third base line). The field is neighbored by a number of houses, as well as the Red Nun Bar and Grill. The field can be found just a few hundred yards from the Main Street Rotary, leaving it within a short walking distance of Chatham's majestic town center.