Day Air Ballpark
Minor league baseball stadium in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Day Air Ballpark, formerly known as Fifth Third Field, is a minor league baseball stadium in Dayton, Ohio, which is the home of the Dayton Dragons, the Midwest League affiliate of the nearby Cincinnati Reds. In 2011, the Dragons broke the all-time professional sports record for most consecutive sellouts by selling out the stadium for the 815th consecutive game, breaking the record formerly held by the Portland Trail Blazers.[7][8]
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Former names | Fifth Third Field (2000–2019) |
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Location | 220 North Patterson Boulevard Dayton, OH 45402 |
Coordinates | 39°45′51″N 84°11′6″W |
Owner | City of Dayton |
Operator | Palisades Arcadia Baseball LLC |
Capacity | 7,230 seats ~1,000 lawn area |
Record attendance | 9,507 (June 19, 2009)[1] |
Field size | Left field – 320 ft (98 m) Center field – 400 ft (122 m) Right field – 320 ft (98 m) |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Broke ground | April 26, 1999[2] |
Opened | April 23, 2000 |
Construction cost | $23.5 million ($41.6 million in 2023 dollars[3]) |
Architect | HNTB Architects Associated, Inc. |
Project manager | Construction Process Solutions Ltd. |
Structural engineer | Fink Roberts & Petrie, Inc.[4] |
Services engineer | Woolpert LLP[5] |
General contractor | Danis Building Construction Company[6] |
Tenants | |
Dayton Dragons (MWL/High-A Central) 2000–present |
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The park has a total capacity of 8,200 people and opened in 2000. With two-deck seating and large skyboxes, some compare it to Triple-A fields.[9]