Motor Mile Field at Calfee Park

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Motor Mile Field at Calfee Park
Location Pulaski, VA, United States
Building chronology
Built 1935
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Capacity
2,500 (largest reported baseball crowd: 4,872)
  • Dimensions:
    • Left Field: 338 feet
    • Center Field: 405 feet
    • Right Field: 301 feet

Motor Mile Field at Calfee Park in Pulaski, VA, was the home of Pulaski affiliated baseball from 1942 through 2019. After that and the Coronavirus pandemic-canceled 2020 season, MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization made the Rookie-Advanced Appalachian League a collegiate wood-bat circuit.

Until the official announcement on September 29, 2020 - the day before the contract between the Majors and the minors expired - Pulaski had reportedly been headed for promotion to a full-season league. The ApL's oldest stadium - built by the Works Progress Administration in 1935 and on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000 - hosts its youngest continuing franchise. It had affiliated ball since 1942, this franchise since 1982 - but it was "inactive" from 1993 through 1996 and again in 2007.

In 2014, its operating contractors retired and the Seattle Mariners dropped the club. Car dealers David Hagan and Larry Shelor then acquired the stadium by agreeing to renovate it, landed the Yankee affiliation and started spending.

They sold out opening day and went on to break the Greeneville Astros' 11-year run atop Appy season attendance. The 2018 club broke its house record crowd three times in August alone - 4,068 for the home finale - and Danville's 1993 Appy League season record with 91,226. The first Appy team ever to draw 90K upped it in 2019 to 95,897.

The park is nestled between a residential neighborhood and the Appalachian Mountains. Neighbors can literally watch games from their front porch, and in 1990 the visiting Huntington Cubs rented a home's telephone line and porch and broadcast a game from it.

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