FirstEnergy Park


FirstEnergy Park is a stadium in Lakewood, New Jersey. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Lakewood BlueClaws single A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team. It is also used for outdoor concerts, featuring touring musical artists such as Bob Dylan. It was built in 2001 and has 6,588 seats and seats 8,000 with berm seating.

History

The stadium opened as GPU Energy Park, named for the former General Public Utilities, Inc. After GPU merged into FirstEnergy Corporation in 2001, the stadium took the new corporate name in 2002.
The team attendance record is 13,003, set on August 26, 2002. FirstEnergy Park had 13 crowds over 9,000 and 81 crowds over 8,000 in its first eight years of play.
FirstEnergy Park was featured in Baseball America's 2009 Great Parks calendar. It was the second time that the home of the Lakewood BlueClaws was highlighted in the calendar.
FirstEnergy Park has hosted the South Atlantic League All-Star Game twice, in 2002 and in 2013. The 2002 attendance of 8,571 was a record for the South Atlantic League All-Star Game.

Features

The ballpark features two general admission, grass seating areas, one in left field and another in right, 20 luxury suites, two party decks, three picnic areas, and a full video scoreboard, with a 23' x 23' video board that can play over 4.4 trillion shades of color in high definition.