Opened--1995
April 26, 2002--Norwich Navigators 6, New Haven Ravens 3
Eastern League--AA
Future Major Leaguer - Andy Phillips, Coco Crisp
Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium is the home of the Norwich Navigators, the AA Eastern league farm club of the New York Yankees. Opened in 1995, the park has pretty much the same features as all the parks that opened around that time. It has a spacious open concourse atop the seating bowl. It has the press box on the field level, so if you walk behind it you can't see some of the game. Above the press box are the Skyboxes, not to noticeable, the inside of the park is rather dull. They do provide cover though, if it rains. It doesn't have the break in the seating to separate the "box" seats from the reserve seats. I could never understand what purpose that serves.
Stadium Rating : B-
2006 update : Dood Stadium is now home to the Connecticut Defenders, AA affiliate
of the San Francisco Giants