Breslin Field

A look in at Breslin Field down the right-field line, Mar-2005.

The playing field, from a vantage point next to the press box.

• Location: Riverside County Park, Riverside and Valley Brook avenues, Lyndhurst, N.J.
• Opened: 1976
• Home team: Bloomfield College Deacons, Central Atlantic College Conference
• Capacity: 2,000 (approx.)

The field has served local high schools and colleges, as well as numerous American Legion games and tournaments and other amateur baseball. The American Legion 1988 Region 2 tournament was played here. During the early 1990s, New Jersey Institute of Technology played its home games here; it is currently used by Bloomfield College, an NJIT conference opponent.

There is no seating behind the plate; all the seats are in bleachers extending well down each foul line. The area behind the plate is taken up by a press box, which was built around 1990 to replace an inadequate predecessor. The press box was dedicated in 2000 to Joe Job, a former Bergen County sheriff who was also a semi-pro baseball advocate and had served as president of the unlimited-age Metropolitan Baseball League for many years.

The facility also hosted football until the early 1990s, when a decision was made to limit the field to baseball use.