Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium

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Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium
Location Kannapolis, NC United States
35.509151; -80.568848
Building chronology
Built 1997
Tenants
Kannapolis Intimidators
Capacity
4,700

Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium in Kannapolis, NC, was the home of Kannapolis affiliated baseball from 1995 through 2019 - finishing the tenure as Intimidators Stadium supported by Atrium Health. In 2021, after losing the 2020 season to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Kannapolis Intimidators of the South Atlantic League began playing as the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers in a new downtown stadium that had been ready for the canceled campaign.

Kannapolis and Rowan County built the old yard jointly, but the city bought the county out of its share in 2011. In 2022, the city sold it to developers who plan to build a corporate complex. The old ballpark was demolished in September and ground was broken for Lakeshore Corporate Park October 13th. The developers say the three-building industrial project will be finished by the end of the summer of 2023.

With the stadium move, the team rebranded as the Cannon Ballers. In their sunset season as Intimidators, they played six games under their original Kannapolis brand - the Piedmont Boll Weevils.

Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium brought the Spartanburg Phillies from one Carolina to the other in 1995. NASCAR legend Dale "The Intimidator" Earnhardt bought into the Weevils after the 2000 season, but he never saw a game as co-owner. After his death in the 2001 Daytona 500, the team retired his famed car number 3 from its uniform roster and took his nickname as theirs.

Carolinas HealthCare System bought stadium naming rights in 2012, branding it CMC-NorthEast Stadium to promote Carolinas Medical Center-Northeast in Kannapolis. CHS changed its own name to Atrium Health in 2018 and rebranded the playpen Intimidators Stadium supported by Atrium Health.