Mahaney Diamond

Entrance portal to the University of Maine’s Mahaney Diamond, Jun-2003.

The main grandstand area.

Alfond Stadium, the school’s football facility, towers over the baseball field.

Chronological Tour: Stop 239

• Location: University of Maine, Orono, Me.
• Opened: 1984
• Home team: Bangor Blue Ox, North Atlantic League (1995-96); Bangor Lumberjacks, Northeast League (2003); University of Maine Black Bears, Yankee Conference
• Capacity: 3,000 (approx.)

Rating: 2 baseballs

Like many college ball fields, simplicity is the norm here. Aside from sections of stadium seats erected above the dugouts, the majority of the seating here is in bleachers. When the Lumberjacks arrived here from Glens Falls, they built a new concession stand and restroom facility, but otherwise the field is pretty much to the Black Bears’ liking.

In 2003, a Lumberjacks staffer told me that negotiations were under way with Husson College, ten miles to the southwest in the city of Bangor, to build a new stadium there that will become the home of the Lumberjacks. At that time, it appeared that the new facility would be ready for 2005, but it actually opened for the 2004 season.