"The Buck" | |
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Former names | The Nebraska Diamond |
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Location | Lincoln, Nebraska |
Owner | University of Nebraska |
Type | Stadium |
Capacity | No permanent seating (before 1979) 1,000 (1979–1980) 1,500 (1981–2001)[1] |
Record attendance | 5,484 (Jun. 2, 2001) |
Field size | Left field: 330 ft (100 m) Left-center: 375 ft (114 m) Center field: 400 ft (120 m) Right-center: 375 ft (114 m) Right field: 330 ft (100 m) |
Surface | Infield: artificial turf Outfield: grass |
Construction | |
Opened | mid-1940s |
Renovated | 1989, 1997[1] |
Expanded | 1979, 1981 |
Closed | June 2, 2001 |
Tenants | |
Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball (mid 1940s–2001) |
Buck Beltzer Stadium (originally The Nebraska Diamond or The Husker Diamond) was a college baseball stadium on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. It primarily served as the home venue for the Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team from the mid-1940s until 2001, when the university constructed Hawks Field at Haymarket Park.