McCrary Park is a baseball

Baseball

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 venue in Asheboro

Asheboro, North Carolina

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, North Carolina

North Carolina

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, USA. It is home to the Asheboro Copperheads

Asheboro Copperheads

The Asheboro Copperheads are an amateur baseball team playing in the Coastal Plain League. The team plays its home games at McCrary Park in Asheboro, North Carolina.-History:...

 of the Coastal Plain League

Coastal Plain League

The Coastal Plain League is a wood-bat collegiate summer league, featuring college players from throughout the nation. The league takes its name from a Class D minor league baseball league which operated in the same area from 1937 to 1952. The modern league was formed with six teams in 1997...

, a collegiate summer baseball league. The park opened in 1946 and has a capacity of 1,400 fans. In addition to the Copperheads, the field is home American Legion and high school baseball.

The park's dimensions are 323 ft. down the left field line, 400 ft. to dead center field, and 335 ft. down the right field line.

History

McCrary Park was built in 1946 by the McCrary Mills as a home for the Mills' Industrial League team, the McCrary Eagles. It began hosting the games of Legion Post 45 in the late 1950s.