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Brown–Stroud Field 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 t ...
venue in
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, United States. It is home to the
Northwestern State Demons baseball The Northwestern State Demons baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States. The team is a member of the Southland Conference, which is part of the National Coll ...
team of the
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Division I
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. Opened on April 1, 1939, the venue has a capacity of 1,200 spectators. It is named after the first two coaches of the Northwestern State baseball program: C. C. Stroud, who coached from 1912 to 1930, and H. Alvin Brown, who coached from 1949 to 1966. Recently added features include chairback seating, an awning that partially covers seating areas, a turf infield, landscaping, and a sound system. The venue's bleacher seating and dugouts have recently been renovated.


Attendance

The following is a list of the top 10 single-game attendance figures, as of the end of the 2014 season.


See also

* List of NCAA Division I baseball venues


References


External links


"Sign of Progress at Brown–Stroud Field"
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