Newman Outdoor Field

Home-plate entrance to Newman Outdoor Field, Aug-2005.

A look at the seating bowl from down the first-base line.

Game action, as seen from directly behind the plate.

• Location: North Dakota State University, Albrecht Boulevard at 15 Avenue North, Fargo, N.D.
• Opened: 1996 as Fargo Baseball Stadium
• Home team: Fargo-Moorhead Red Hawks, Northern League (1996-present); North Dakota State University Bison, NCAA Division I independent
• Capacity: 4,000 (approx.)

Rating: 3 baseballs

After playing their first six games at an American Legion field a mile and a half away, the Red Hawks moved to this new facility, which in 1998 received a local outdoor advertising company as a sponsor. Yes, “Newman Outdoor Field” means that Newman Outdoor is the sponsor, not that it’s an outdoor field. You expected a dome in Fargo?

The outside walk-up staircase bringing you near home plate, the upper-level concourse, the sky boxes above the concourse ... all these are typical features of many of the Northern League parks, and it appears that this ballpark led the way.

I am advised that there is now a museum dedicated to Maury Wills in the stadium. While not a North Dakota native, Wills spent time here after his baseball career.