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78 Newport 150 16 111 16 89 114 26 4 201 5 105 27 100 2 105 17

2 201 5 2 16 23 91 114 3 26 15 2 27 15 Berlin 108 201 2 100 2 Burlington St. Johnsbury 202 89 133 24 93 2 104 2 2 26 Augusta 5 2 302 17 16 7 Montpelier 5 5 93 3 Barre 302 4 202 302 9 17 93 495 12 91 302 302 95 35 121 Middlebury 136 100 14 110 89 25 117 26 Bath 1 16 107 302 27 495 Brunswick

25 27 7 5 107 25 100 3 Hanover 3A White River Junction 117 Portland 22 4 Rutland 4 89 Lebanon 4 16 Scarborough 89 202 Laconia 11 28 3A 93 106 91 120 Old Orchard Beach 111 Biddeford 103 16 Claremont 4 100 106 202 11 28 11 5 1 7 89 103 Concord 4 202 Dover 95 31 3 236 293 7A Bellows Falls Kittery 10 91 202 25 114 Portsmouth N 30 9 7A 100 12 Manchester 95 1 Keene 125 9 101 9 26 Bennington 9 Brattleboro 10 101 93 Newburyport 7 12 202 95 5 Nashua 10 495 North Adams 3 1 7 91 202 2 13 Lowell RHODE ISLAND 2 93 11 Gloucester 13 Orange newport, RI 128 Turners Falls 3

Cardines Field is a cozy little bandbox in Burlington 9 downtown Newport. The hitters and fans 495 17 140 Cardines110 Woburn Lynn Pitts eld love it,20 but2 the pitchers can take it or leave 20 Address: 20 America’s Cup Avenue, Amherstit. Since it’s just 285 feet down the right-field 93 Newport, RI 02840 15 line, homes behind right field might as well Fi20 ELD 1 Web Site: www.newportgulls.com be painted with a bull’s-eye. The ballpark’s122 90 90 Northampton history dates back to 1908, when a group of First Game: 1908 9 Worcester Home of the Boston railroaders for the old New York–New Haven9 20 202 of the New England Collegiate Dimensions: LF 315 LCF 365 CF 395 10 railroad started their own league 90 4 RCF 315 RF 285 Chicopee Baseball League 23 at the site. At first, the neighborhood must 140 3 23 90 90 Milford 95 Directions: From the north, take I-95 South have been happy that a group had found a 7 20 Marsh eld from Providence8 to Exit 9. Take RI-138 East new use for the buggy, swampy piece of land, About1 Newport Brockton Spring eld Provincetown toward Newport Bridge. Travel over two but the excitement was short lived. Stray bridges. At the end of Newport20 Bridge,2 follow 91 Fun Facts Duxbury balls led to broken windows, which caused signs toward “Scenic Newport.” At the second Suggested18 Sightseeing Bridgewater 44 traffic light,8 turn right onto America’s Cup many complaints. Soon84 after, upon the orders 495 24 Dining Out Plymouth Avenue. Drive 0.3 miles, and the field will be on of management, the baseball league was 146 6 7 your left. Baseball Backgrounder disbanded.83 44 44 44 295 From the south, take I-95 North to Exit 3. Take 5 In 1919, baseball returned to stay. Since 102 84 44 395 Pawtucket 4 RI-138 East toward Newport Bridge. Travel overWi ndsor 3 202 then, the George S. Donnelly Sunset League two bridges. At the end of Newport Bridge, Providence Orleans follow signs toward “Scenic Newport.” At the has been the ballpark’s main tenant. While 4 Hartford 6 6 14 Cranston 114 24 140 Wareham Sandwich second traffic light, turn right onto America’s the ballpark384 still has its original backstop, the Barrington Cup Avenue.8 Drive 0.3 miles, and the20 field 91will Buzzards Bay wooden bleachers weren’t built until 1936. Fall River 6 28 202 be on your left.Bristol 85 Willimantic 117 Warwick 195 Since then, the City of Newport has owned and Barnstable Chatham 63 22 95 Mattapoisett 7 84 operated the .32 102 4 Harwich New Bedford 6 28 Hyannis Cardines has an old-time feel. The ballpark 1 17 Waterbury New Britain 5 is tucked away between2 Newport’s downtown 165 691 Falmouth 2 138 and residential areas.Nor Manywich consider165 Cardines 2 Woods Hole 84 69 9 Field a close cousin82 of and Fenway 138 2 95 21 Park—maybe it’s because of the small dimen- Newport Vineyard Haven 82 395 2 8 sions, or maybe it’s because fans are so close to 84 Danbury 34 81 9 3 Edgartown 63 the action. Comparisons1 may be made because 1 19 1 95 58 New Haven Maple Street Press | 15 95 7 Stratford Bridgeport 15 Stamford Norwalk 10 20 30 40 50 Miles 1 95 Marsheld 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Kilometers Provincetown South Duxbury

Kingston 6 Plymouth 1 17 Cardines Field 44 2 Upper Cape Regional Technical School 18 McCoy Stadium 3 12 3 Stony Brook Field 4 Campanelli Field 19 The Ballpark at Harbor Yard 14 2 3 5 Veteran’s Field 20 New Britain Stadium Orleans 6 Elizabeth Lowell Park 21 Yale Field Wareham 16 Brewster 7 Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field 22 Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium 5 Bourne 9 8 Whitehouse Field 195 6 6 9 McKeon Park 23 Centennial Field At UVM Chatham Mattapoisett South 10 Edward A. Lelacheur Park 24 Mountaineer Recreation Field Yarmouth Harwich 7 Hyannis 11 Fraser Field Cotuit 12 Eldredge Park 25 Merchantsauto.com Stadium 28 8 13 Wahconah Park 26 Holman Stadium Falmouth 14 Clem Spillane Field 15 Hanover Insurance Park At Fitton Field 27 Hadlock Field 16 Red Wilson Field