Red Rolfe Field At Biondi Park

Dartmouth has issued a press release with information about the current construction of baseball's new Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. The project is the result of a $5.2 million gift from the late Mike Biondi '79 and Cindy Ginn Biondi '80.

From the release:

Renovations will include construction of a new synthetic FieldTurf surface, permanent seating for 650 spectators with the ability to add more than 1,000 temporary seats along the first- and third-baselines, dugouts, batting cages, bullpens, a new scoreboard, press box, and landscaping.

That permanent seating, as I understand it, will include chairback seating behind home plate. ... The only dirt on the field will be the pitcher's mound. The batter's box and basepaths will be dirt-colored FieldTurf. ... If you are wondering how that will look, check out this close-up photo from a Cornell game played on FieldTurf and relax ;-). ... Having seen a few games on FieldTurf, I can also tell you the ball bounces much more the way it does on grass than it does on AstroTurf.

Dartmouth baseball won the Ivy League's Red Rolfe Division championship for the fourth time in eight years this spring. The Big Green was ranked first in New England and head coach Bob Whalen was named the New England coach of the year.