Bowen Field at Peters Park is a

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, United States. Primarily used for

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, it is the home field for

Bluefield Ridge Runners The Bluefield Ridge Runners are a summer collegiate baseball team of the Appalachian League. They are located in Bluefield, West Virginia, and play their home games at Bowen Field at Peters Park. History Previous Bluefield teams Professional ...

of the summer collegiate

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and the

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Rams baseball team. It previously hosted the Bluefield Orioles and the

Bluefield Blue Jays The Bluefield Blue Jays were a minor league baseball team of the Rookie Appalachian League representing the twin cities of Bluefield, West Virginia, and Bluefield, Virginia. The team played their home games at Bowen Field at Peters Park, a histori ...

of Minor League Baseball from 1939 to 2020. It was built in 1939 during the

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as a WPA project, and it was rebuilt in 1975 after a fire. It holds 3,000 people. Seats are from the

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and were installed in 1990s. The stadium is located in the city park of

Bluefield, West Virginia Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,658 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Bluefield WV- VA micropolitan area, which had a population of 106,363 in 2020. Geography Bluefie ...

, and is operated by the West Virginia city. However, the park straddles the

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–

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state line, and Bowen Field lies completely on the Virginia side of the park. The Blue Jays added "Peters Park" to the ballpark name in May 2017, in honor of a local Bluefield donor, Charles Peters.‘Peters Baseball Park’: Bluefield businessman’s name added to Bowen Field
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