Holman Stadium
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Holman Stadium is a baseball stadium in Vero Beach, Florida, built in 1953 to accommodate spring training for the Dodgers as part of a complex called "Dodgertown". In addition to the Dodgers' spring games, it is also the home of the Vero Beach Dodgers of the Florida State League. Official seating capacity is 6,500.
Holman is unique for its open-air dugouts that are literally dug out along the sides of the field. These may have been the inspiration for the dugouts in Johnny Hart's B.C. comic strip.
Holman Stadium is a baseball stadium in Nashua, New Hampshire. Owned by the city, it became home to the Nashua Pride, a baseball team in the independent Atlantic League, in 1998; another non-affiliated team, the Nashua Hawks of the North Atlantic League, played there earlier in the 1990s. Official seating capacity is 4,375.
Holman hosted what is considered the first integrated baseball team in the modern era, when Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe played for the then-Nashua Dodgers in 1946.
External links
- Ballpark Digest visit to Holman Stadium (http://www.ballparkwatch.com/visits/vero_beach.htm)
- Nashua Holman Stadium Views - Ball Parks of the Minor Leagues (http://www.geocities.com/pauls2004parks/Stadiums/Nashua/Nashua.htm)
- Vero Beach Holman Stadium Views - Ball Parks of the Minor Leagues (http://www.geocities.com/pauls2005parks/Stadiums/Vero_Beach/Vero_Beach.htm)