{"id":402,"date":"2010-06-29T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/06\/29\/progress-on-the-new-baseball-stadium\/"},"modified":"2010-06-29T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:41:26","slug":"progress-on-the-new-baseball-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2010\/06\/29\/progress-on-the-new-baseball-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on the New Baseball Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Kyle Bender &lsquo;12<\/i> &ndash; As part of a $6.2 million upgrade to the Wabash College outdoor athletics facilities, work has now began on the new baseball stadium to be built on the southwest side of the Allen Center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/cory.jpg\" \/>During the next few months, the construction crew will work simultaneously on the baseball stadium and the FieldTurf installation at Hollett Little Giant Stadium.&nbsp;The new football field will be complete for the upcoming season.&nbsp;The 2010 campaign kicks off September 11 versus Wooster at 1:00 p.m.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The lot designated for the baseball stadium has already been cleared of trees and power lines.&nbsp;Drainage and sewer pipes will soon be run under the construction site.&nbsp;In the coming days, top soil will be removed and an outline of the field and dugouts will start to take shape.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Needless to say, many in the Wabash community are excited about the project, perhaps none more than the baseball team&rsquo;s players and coaches.&nbsp;The team has played baseball in Mud Hollow Field for the last 52 years and is eager to move to a brand-new stadium.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Head Baseball Coach Cory Stevens and former Wabash baseball player Steve Hoffman &rsquo;85 were able give us their thoughts on what the stadium means to the program:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Coach Stevens even gave a visual walking tour of where the finished product will stand:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Bender &lsquo;12 &ndash; As part of a $6.2 million upgrade to the Wabash College outdoor athletics facilities, work has now began on the new baseball stadium to be built on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletic-fields-construction"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}