Baseball Heaven (BBH) is a 27-acre baseball complex in
Yaphank, New York
Yaphank () is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 5,945 at the time of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census.
Yaphank is locate ...
on
Long Island,. The complex is located close to
Long Island MacArthur Airport
Long Island MacArthur Airport (formerly known as Islip Airport) is a public airport in Ronkonkoma, New York, on Long Island. The Town of Islip owns and operates the airport, which serves about two million airline passengers a year, as well as g ...
. Baseball Heaven has been around since August 6, 2002. Baseball Heaven attracts talent from the
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York (state), New York to the west and by the Can ...
and
Mid-Atlantic states. The complex features four ninety foot base path artificial turf fields and three are seventy foot artificial turf fields. Approximately 750,000 people visit Baseball Heaven on an annual basis.
Ownership
Baseball Heaven was acquired by Steel Sports on June 27, 2011.
BBH completed the build of a 12,000-square-foot facility, $1.9 million indoor training facility on its site called Steel Sports Academy.
Features
BBH's amenities include below grade dugouts, connecting bullpens, warning tracks, P.A. systems, electronic scoreboards, and an artificial turf. The complex accommodates its spectators with ballpark seating, concessions, restaurant, and a picnic area.
Notable events
The Baseball Heaven complex has been host to the National Youth Baseball Championships (NYBC) since 2014. In September 2014, a Long Island Little League coach was struck in the head by a baseball during warmups and was knocked unconscious. He was rushed to the nearby
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in
East Patchogue where he was pronounced dead.
References
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Baseball venues in New York (state)
College baseball venues in the United States
Sports venues in Suffolk County, New York
2004 establishments in New York (state)
Sports venues completed in 2004