Fuessenich Park is a

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

field located in downtown Torrington,

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

, United States, with a capacity of 1,500 fans. Between the late 1990s and mid-2010s, the park hosted two

collegiate summer baseball Collegiate summer baseball leagues are amateur baseball leagues in the United States and Canada featuring players who have attended at least one year of college and have at least one year of athletic eligibility remaining. Generally, they operat ...

franchises, the

Torrington Twisters The New Bedford Bay Sox were a baseball team that played in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a collegiate summer baseball league operating in the New England region of the United States. The team was located in New Bedford, Massachuset ...

and

Torrington Titans The Torrington Titans were a collegiate summer baseball team that played in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) of New England. They played their inaugural season in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League, a collegiate summer baseball ...

Tenant history

The field was home to the

of the

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from 2010 to 2016. Prior to the Titans, the field was home to the

of the

New England Collegiate Baseball League The New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) is a 13-team collegiate summer baseball wooden bat league founded in 1993 and sanctioned by the NCAA and Major League Baseball. Each NECBL team plays an eight-week, 44-game schedule during June ...

(NECBL) from 1997 to 2008. It hosted two NECBL All-Star Games, in 1998 and 2008, respectively. The park was home to the

Torrington Braves The Torrington Braves were a short lived minor league baseball team based in Torrington, Connecticut. In 1950, the Braves played as members of the Class B level 1950 Colonial League, which permanently folded during the 1950 season with the Braves ...

of the

Colonial League The Colonial League is an athletic conference consisting of 14 high schools mostly from the Lehigh Valley portion of eastern Pennsylvania. It is part of District XI of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. The Colonial League is ...

for the 1950 season.http://www.digitalballparks.com/NECBL/Torrington8.html Fuessenich Park gallery, URL accessed December 13, 2008 The field has also been home to the American Legion Baseball League team for high school age players, the Tri-State Baseball League team for post-high school players, and additional organized baseball leagues and events for middle school and high school players.

External links

Torrington Titans website

FCBL website

Notes

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