Joe Martin Field

Home-plate entrance to Joe Martin Field, Aug-2013.

The compact, partially covered main seating bowl, flanked by bleachers.

Action during a West Coast League game, Jul-2024.

• Location: Potter and Moore streets, 3 blocks east of I-5 exit 253, Bellingham, Wash. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 1964 as Civic Field
• Additional names: Joe Martin Field (1980)
• Home team: Bellingham Dodgers (1973-76), Mariners (1977-94), Giants (1995-96), Northwest League
• Capacity: 1,600

Following the 1996 season, Bellingham was abandoned by the pros; the existing club moved to Oregon. However, in 1999, the summer college league Bellingham Bells took residence, and they have played at the field since. The facility also sees use for high school baseball.

The central grandstand is small, but flanked by a reasonable supply of bleachers. The field is a little bit short, only 370 feet to dead center, which perhaps makes it a bit more suited to a college wood-bat league than to professional baseball. Artificial turf was installed as the playing surface in the latter part of the decade of the 2010s. The field faces southwest, rather than the customary northeast.