Full name | John and Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Field |
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Location | McCormick Road and Cherry Lane, West Lafayette, IN, USA |
Coordinates | 40°26′14″N 86°56′30″W / 40.437312°N 86.941646°W |
Owner | Purdue University |
Operator | Purdue University |
Capacity | 1,500 (expandable to 2,500) |
Field size | Left Field - 340 ft (100 m) Left Center - 368 ft (112 m) Center Field - 408 ft (124 m) Right Center - 368 ft (112 m) Right Field - 330 ft (100 m) |
Surface | Natural grass |
Scoreboard | Electronic |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 2011 |
Built | 2011–2012 |
Opened | 2013 |
Construction cost | $10.3 million |
Architect | Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons |
Tenants | |
Purdue Boilermakers (Big Ten) 2013–present Lafayette Aviators (PL) 2020 |
Alexander Field is a baseball venue in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. It is home to the Purdue Boilermakers baseball team of the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference. The field hosted its first game in spring 2013. The venue has a capacity of 1,500 spectators that is expandable to 2,500 spectators. It is named for John and Anna Margaret Ross Alexander, Purdue alumni and the parents of former Purdue head baseball coach Dave Alexander[1]