Sims Legion Park
Sims Legion Park is a 3,000-seat baseball stadium located in Gastonia, North Carolina. It hosts the Gastonia Grizzlies of the Coastal Plain League, as well as American Legion baseball.
The stadium underwent a total rebuild in the 1970s in order to attract a Minor League Baseball team. Since then the stadium has seen many tenants come and go. There is an ongoing effort to build a new ballpark in Gastonia, but it is not guaranteed to be a new home for the Grizzlies. City officials are favoring a potential partnership which would put an Atlantic League expansion team in the new ballpark. Grizzlies ownership have said they would not share the stadium.
Players who've played here include Andy Van Slyke, Sammy Sosa, Juan González, Iván Rodríguez, and former Major Leaguer Tug McGraw, who pitched one game for the Rangers in 1989.
