Schools Stadium, Marion, Va.

Marion Schools Stadium

An overview of Marion Schools Stadium, Aug-2012.

Looking at the baseball seating and field from the football stands down the first-base line.

These stands may not be original; in any case, they are not even with the plate.

Quick Facts:

Location: Stadium Drive off Stage Road, Marion, Va.
Opened: 1955 (approx.)
Home team: Marion Athletics, Appalachian League (second half of 1955); Marion Mets, Appalachian League (1965-76); Marion Senior HS Scarlet Hurricanes, Southwest District Region IV
Capacity: 1,000 (approx.)

Marion Stadium saw its first use for professional baseball in 1955, when a local investor bought the foundering Welch (W.Va.) Miners and relocated them to the Smyth County seat for the last two months of the Appalachian League season. The league suspended operations for 1956 and then came back in 1957 without a club in Marion. A decade later, the New York Mets had their rookie league team play for a dozen years at this field alongside the railroad tracks two blocks off the Lee Highway (US 11).

While I am fairly certain the baseball field has not moved, there may have been a more substantial seating area during the years in which the field was used in the Appalachian League.

I took these photos while the ground crew was getting the football field ready for a scrimmage.

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