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AL: Cleveland - Jacobs Field
« on: July 27, 2005, 04:01:27 pm »
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Opened: April 4, 1994
Style: Open
Surface: Kentucky Bluegrass
Capacity: 43,345
Dimensions: LF-325 ft LCF-370 ft CF-405 ft RCF-375 ft RF-325 ft

Tidbits:

- Originally designed as a retractable dome, but residents rejected funding required.

- Home plate is the same plate used at the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
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