Stumpf Field is a baseball-only stadium in
Manheim Township, Pennsylvania that opened in 1938. It was built as the home of the
Lancaster Red Roses
The Lancaster Red Roses baseball team, originally known as the Maroons, changed its name at the start of the 1906 season during a bitter match with the York, Pennsylvania-based White Roses. Some sources indicate that the rival teams were named fo ...
baseball team, who played in the Interstate, Piedmont, and Eastern Leagues through 1961. The ballpark is now used for intramural and high school baseball. This field was donated to the Red Rose players by John G. Stumpf, owner of Stumpf Oil among other foundations and monuments throughout Lancaster County.
History
Built in 1938, Stumpf Field is a simple ballpark with makeshift bleachers down each baseline. The ballpark at one time had covered bleachers behind homeplate, but they have been taken down. The seating on both the first and third baselines is still in place, and retains most its original wooden frame.
The Lancaster Red Roses played at Stumpf Field from 1938 to 1961. The team folded in 1961, and Stumpf Field has since been relegated as a local baseball and softball venue. It was sold to Jeff Sweigart, owner of McMinn's Asphalt and a baseball enthusiast, in 2003 and renovated for local baseball leagues for players ages 20–40, as well as for 40 and older.
Stumpf Field served as home of the
Millersville University
Millersville University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Millersville University, The Ville, or MU) is a public university in Millersville, Pennsylvania. It is one of the fourteen schools that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher E ...
Marauders baseball team prior to the 2007 season, until a new stadium was erected on campus.
See also
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Clipper Magazine Stadium
Clipper Magazine Stadium is a baseball park located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the Northwest Corridor (Lancaster), Northwest Corridor neighborhood. It is the home of the Lancaster Barnstormers, the city's Atlantic League of Professional Baseb ...
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Sports venues completed in 1938
College baseball venues in the United States
High school baseball venues in the United States