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Veterans Stadium

Philadelphia · 1971–2003 · config 2003

Plays even

(+0.0 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 330′ · LFA 371′ · LC 371′ · CF 408′ · RC 371′ · RFA 371′ · RF 330′

Walls LF 12′ · CF 12′ · RF 12′

Cookie-cutter multi-purpose bowl — AstroTurf years

Cavernous foul ground

Capacity 62,409

A concrete bowl on carpet. Loud, hard, and nobody's idea of coziness.

Overhead diagram

Veterans Stadium overhead schematicLF 330′LFA 371′LC 371′CF 408′RC 371′RFA 371′RF 330′12′ wall12′ wall12′ wallCavernous foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

Philadelphia Veterans Stadium001 (21036281853).jpg
Philadelphia Veterans Stadium001 (21036281853).jpg · Joel Dinda from Mulliken, Michigan / Wikimedia Commons · 1991 · CC BY 2.0

About this park

Veterans Stadium was a concrete cookie-cutter on South Broad — Astroturf, artificial dirt cutouts, and a multipurpose bowl that hosted Phillies and Eagles. It played near neutral in the library's band. The 1993 and 2008 memories belong to the teams; the building was never romantic.