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LaGrave Field is a stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. It is primarily used for baseball, and was the home field of the Fort Worth Cats independent minor league baseball team. Its original version was the home of the predecessor Panthers/Cats team of the Texas League, during 1926–1958; the American Association in 1959; and then in Texas League again in 1964. It also served as the part-time home of the Dallas Rangers during 1960–1962. The ballpark was rebuilt during 2001, and opened in 2002 after the club played one season at Lon Goldstein Field. The ballpark sits on land bounded by a parking lot and then North Calhoun Street (southwest, first base); Northeast 6th Street (if extended) (southeast, right field); Northeast 7th Street (if extended) (northwest, third base); and the banks of a branch of the Trinity River (northeast, left field). The imaginary line running from home plate through second base runs roughly east-southeast. During the teams' inaugural 2014 season, LaGrave Field hosted home games for the Fort Worth Vaqueros FC of the National Premier Soccer League.〔http://www.ftworthsoccer.com〕 ==History== LaGrave Field opened in 1926, replacing Panther Park, which had been opened in 1911 and was located on the "west side of North Main Street, a few blocks from" the eventual LaGrave Field.〔Michael Benson, ''Baseball Parks of North America'', McFarland, 1989〕 Panther Park, in turn, had replaced Hayne's Park, located "in the 'Prairie' area near downtown". After winning consecutive Texas League championships during 1919–1925, the club owners decided to build a new ballpark, which was named for the club's principal owner, Paul LaGrave. It turns out that the last year of the old ballpark was also the last year of the Panthers/Cats string of league titles, but the club would go on to win several more league titles in the 1930s and 1940s. Early in the 1949 season, on May 15–16, the ballpark was attacked on several fronts, by a destructive fire and then rains and floods. The ballpark was rebuilt and rededicated in time for the 1950 season. After baseball left the city in 1965, the site languished for years, but parts of it remained. When the site was rebuilt during 2001, the original dugouts were retained and renovated as dugout suites, making LaGrave the only ballpark in America to house "four dugouts".〔(Fort Worth Cats Official Website )〕 The original location of home plate was also retained.〔 Even at that, the ballpark was planned to be only a temporary site, to be replaced by an 8 million USD stadium owned by the Fort Worth Sports Authority; however that plan never materialized, due to soil contamination and water pollution at the city-owned site〔(Fort Worth Weekly - May 2, 2002 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LaGrave Field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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