The idea was to have the team play at 9,800-seat Doubleday Field.
Find out about 12 WPA projects that can still be found, including Doubleday Field and Camp David.
Next to the museum is Doubleday Field, where a baseball game is played every year as part of a party about adding new people to the museum's stories.
At Doubleday Field today, Torborg removed Coleman from center and gave Patrick Howell eight innings in that spot.
Doubleday Field, A Diamond in the Pasture, explains how Phinney's farm became the famous baseball park.
Despite this, the ballpark only a few blocks down from the Hall of Fame still bears the name "Doubleday Field".
After an extensive renovation, the new Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field was formally dedicated on September 13, 1996.
Despite the attraction of baseball history and charm, Doubleday Field is small, old, has no lights, and fell well below Triple-A standards.
Each year from 1940 to 2008, Doubleday Field hosted the Hall of Fame Game.
Most days, Doubleday Field, the bandbox semipro ballpark that witnesses a major league exhibition game once every summer, is quiet.