Camden Yard
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Home of the Ybor City Rollers.
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History
Roller Field at Camden Yards, the beautiful baseball-only facility in downtown Ybor City, became the official home of the Rollers before the 2001 B season.
Roller Field is state-of-the-art yet unique; traditional and intimate in design. It blends with the urban context of downtown Ybor City while taking its image from baseball parks built in the early 20th century. Steel, rather than concrete trusses, an arched brick facade, a sun roof over the gentle slope of the upper deck, an asymmetrical playing field, and natural grass turf are just some of the features that tie it to those magnificent big league ballparks built in the early 1900's. Ebbets Field (Brooklyn), Shibe Park (Philadelphia), Fenway Park (Boston), Crosley Field (Cincinnati), Forbes Fields (Pittsburgh), Wrigley Field (Chicago), and The Polo Grounds (New York) were among the ballparks that served as powerful influences in the design of Roller Field.
Dimensions
Left field: 333 ft; Left-Center: 364 ft; Deepest Left-Center: 410 ft; Center field: 400 ft; Right-Center: 373 ft; Right field: 318 ft; Backstop: 57 ft.
Fences
25 ft. in Right field, 7 ft. elsewhere.
Camden Yard Facts
- Site of the 2005 A All-Star Game
- Site of the 2004 B All-Star Game
- Site of the 2003 B All-Star Game
- Camden Yards complex includes the Baltimore & Ohio Warehouse, the longest building on the East Coast (1,016 feet long by 51 feet wide).
- Warehouse contains Roller’s front offices.
- Banks of lights are mounted on the roof of warehouse.
- Unique double-decked bullpens in left-center field.
- Playing field is 16 feet below street level.
- The "H" in "The Sun" sign on top of the scoreboard will flash to show a scoring decision of a hit and the "E" will flash to show an error.
Seating Chart
