Doug Kingsmore Stadium is a stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Clemson University Tigers. It opened in 1970 and holds 6,000 people. Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia is capable of being converted from a rectangular football field to an oval for cricket games A modern stadium (plural stadiums or stadia in English) is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly... Clemson is a city located in South Carolina, a state of the United States of America. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
Formerly known as Beautiful Tiger Field, Doug Kingsmore is now arguably one of the top collegebaseball facilities in the nation. The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ...
The stadium only has 3,500 permanent seats. However, it is capable of holding up to 6,000 fans.
In 2000, former baseball player and Board of Trustees member Doug Kingsmore donated $1 million for the stadium's renovation. At this point, it was renamed Doug Kingsmore Stadium. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Board of directors. ...
Controversy
Some Clemson fans were not pleased with the change in name. The name changed due to a donation of money by Kingsmore.
DougKingsmoreStadium has seen steady improvement since its first season in 1970, and is now one of the top facilities in the country.
Prior to 2005, PawVision, the giant replay screen that was used in the football stadium from 1997-04, was moved to DougKingsmoreStadium.
The stadium has 3,500 permanent seats, but is capable of holding 5,617 fans thanks to a hill area down the left-field line that is popular with the Clemson student-body.