Breslin Field

A look in at Breslin Field down the right-field line, Mar-2005.

The playing field, from a vantage point next to the press box.

• Location: Riverside County Park, Riverside and Valley Brook avenues, Lyndhurst, N.J. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 1968
• Capacity: 2,000 (approx.)

The field has served local high schools and colleges, as well as numerous American Legion games and tournaments and other amateur baseball. The American Legion 1988 Region 2 tournament was played here. During the early 1990s, New Jersey Institute of Technology played its home games here; it has recently been used by Bloomfield College, Felician College (Lodi), and Queen of Peace High School (North Arlington).

There is no seating behind the plate; all the seats are in bleachers extending well down each foul line. The area behind the plate is taken up by a press box, which was built around 1990 to replace an inadequate predecessor. The press box was dedicated in 2000 to Joe Job, a former Bergen County sheriff who was also a semi-pro baseball advocate and had served as president of the unlimited-age Metropolitan Baseball League for many years.

The facility also hosted football until the early 1990s, when a decision was made to limit the field to baseball use.

The field was fitted with artificial turf after the 2010 high school season, in order that teams might make even more use of this well-located facility. In 2019, the park served as a temporary home for both Seton Hall University, which was seeing renovations to Owen T. Carroll Field, and New Jersey Institute of Technology, which had lost use of Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium due to planned demolition and redevelopment as a “transit village”.