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The Ajax Sportsplex is a
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softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
facility located in
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, Canada that hosted the
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 ...
and
softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
competitions at the
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. During the games the venue was known as the ''President's Choice Ajax Ballpark.''


Description

The facility consists of four softball diamonds and two baseball diamonds at Taunton Road and Audley Road in north east Ajax.Ajax set to host Pan Am Ball Park
/ref> Prior to the games the facility received 9 million dollars in upgrades to ensure it met
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standards, which included converting two soccer fields into a baseball diamond and the adjacent existing baseball diamond being rebuilt with new sod and clay. During the games the Sportsplex housed four stadiums. Two premier fields had temporary seating for 5,000 each, with one being for baseball and one for softball and two competition fields had 1,200 seats each (one for each sport).


Requirements

The Organizers set a few benchmarks for selecting the venue.Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Expression of interest--baseball/softball venue
/ref> *The venue was owned by the city. *The venue was within the games area. *The site would ideally have a training facility as well. *The facility would be ready to start construction in late March 2013. *A binding agreement would have to be signed by end of July 2012. *Easy access to public transit. *Agree to cover 44% of the costs.
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Vaughan considers kick at Pan Am 2015
/ref> considered bidding, but ultimately chose not to.


Photo gallery

File:AjaxSportsplex.jpg, Ajax Sportsplex prior to the Pan Am Games File:President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark Softball diamond 3.jpg, Canada versus USA Pan Am Softball diamond #3 File:President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark outside.jpg, Temporary seating during Pan Am Games File:President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark Team Canada.jpg, Team Canada playing diamond #1


See also

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Venues of the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games The 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games venues were mostly located in the host city of Toronto, Ontario, though some events required facilities located elsewhere. Besides Toronto, fourteen other municipalities in Southern Ontario hosted competit ...


References


External links


Toronto 2015 - President's Choice Ajax Ballpark

Town of Ajax Sports FieldsDesign plan
{{2015 Pan American Games venues Venues of the 2015 Pan American Games Baseball venues in Ontario Softball venues in Ontario Ajax, Ontario