Eastwood Field

 

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Address: 5555 Youngstown Warren Rd, Niles, OH 44446 | View on Google Maps

The Youngstown State baseball team shares Eastwood Field with the Mahoning Valley Scrappers of the MLB Draft League.

While the Penguins call the field home from March through May, the Scrappers, who formerly were the short-season minor-league affiliate for the Cleveland Indians, play 30-plus home games each summer from late May through early August.

Eastwood Field, a 6,300-seat open-air stadium, was completed in 1999 and was originally named Cafaro Field in honor of the late Cafaro Company Founder, William Cafaro. With furnished locker rooms, sheltered batting cages and a new state-of-the-art Daktronics ProStar LED video board, the facility ranks among the best in the region.

In May 2004, Eastwood Field served as the venue for the Horizon League Baseball Championship. YSU swept through the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record to earn its first ever conference championship and trip to the Division I NCAA Regional. The facility also played host to the Horizon League Baseball Championship in 2008 and 2013.

Eastwood Field is no stranger to postseason play as the Scrappers played host to playoff games in 1999, 2000 and 2004. During the summer of 2012, the Scrappers hosted the eighth annual New York-Penn League All-Star Game at Eastwood Field.

YSU first called Eastwood Field home in 2000.

The venue has played host to a diverse lineup of entertainment and charitable events including Youngstown State Baseball, High School Baseball, Championship Boxing, the Youngstown Symphony, automobile shows, the American Heart Association Heart Walk, the Buddy Walk, TNA and NEW wrestling events and a variety of meetings, conferences, company picnics, and parties. In addition, Eastwood Field has been home to a number of the Valley's largest concert acts including Bad Company, Nelly, Kool and the Gang, the Beach Boys and Kenny Rogers and Foreigner in the summer of 2008.