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Full name | Clifford S. Cormell Field at Sparrow Stadium |
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Address | 4700 East Palmetto Street, Florence, SC 29506 [1] |
Coordinates | 34°11′38.5″N79°39′33″W / 34.194028°N 79.65917°W |
Capacity | 1,755 [1] |
Field size | Left field: 330 ft (100 m) Center field: 400 ft (120 m) Right field: 330 ft (100 m) [2] |
Opened | April 11, 2012 [3] |
Tenants | |
Francis Marion Patriots [1] (PBC) 2012–present Florence–Darlington Tech Stingers [4] Florence Flamingos [2] (CPL) 2012–2021 |
Clifford S. Cormell Field at Sparrow Stadium is a baseball stadium on the campus of Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. [1] Part of the $11.1 million R. Gerald Griffin Athletic Complex, Sparrow Stadium is the home field for the Francis Marion Patriots baseball team. [1] Sparrow Stadium also hosts some home games for the Florence–Darlington Technical College Stingers baseball team. [4]
Sparrow Stadium was the home field of the Florence Flamingos, a collegiate summer baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, from 2012 to 2021. [2] The then Florence RedWolves moved to Sparrow Stadium in the middle of the 2012 season from Florence's American Legion Field. [5] [6] Sparrow Stadium hosted the Coastal Plain League All-Star Game on July 12, 2015. [7] The Flamingos moved in 2022 to the new Carolina Bank Field in Florence. [8] [9]
...Cormell Field at Sparrow Stadium, which opened on April 11...
Florence's first game at Sparrow Stadium is scheduled for July 7 against the Wilson Tobs.