Short Season Class A--New York Penn League

Wahconah Park is located in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. It is the home of the Pittsfield Astros, single A affiliate of the Houston Astros. I like an old park just as much as the next guy, but this one just didn't do it for me. Let's start with our seats. Sure they were two rows from the field, but they were folding metal chairs with paper thin seat cushions. Maybe it was late in the season but you would think they could paint them once in a while. The same goes for the "Grandstand". It is made of wooden bleacher type seats and is very tight with almost no room to walk at all. They do have decoy owls hanging from the rafters to stop birds from nesting. They also have wooden bleachers down each line.

The park was also crawling with local teenagers who were there just for a place to hang out; they didn't watch or pay attention to the game at all. They only distracted the people who were trying to watch. The food was typical ballpark food, 2 dollars for a burger, the same for a dog. Parking is free, which is always nice. One thing that I heard about but did not experience was the "Sun Delay". Home plate faces the west in this park, so when the sun sets it can be very hard on the batter.

2005 update : With the Black Bears now playing in Yale Field as the New Haven County
Cutters, the park is now home to the Pittsfield Dukes of the NECBL.