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  Turtle Creek Stadium Location within Michigan | |
| Former names |
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|---|---|
| Location | 333 Stadium Drive Traverse City, Michigan, United States |
| Coordinates | 44°40′54″N 85°39′38″W / 44.68173°N 85.660615°W |
| Owner | Traverse City Baseball, LLC |
| Capacity | 3,518; expandable to 4,200 |
| Field size | Left field: 320 ft (97.5 m) Left-center: 390 ft (118.9 m) Center field: 400 ft (121.9 m) Right-center: 390 ft (118.9 m) Right field: 320 ft (97.5 m) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 2004 |
| Opened | May 24, 2006 |
| Construction cost | $6 million |
| Architect | William C. Fuller |
| Tenants | |
| Traverse City Beach Bums (FL) 2006–2018 Traverse City Pit Spitters (NWL) 2019–present | |
Turtle Creek Stadium (formerly Pit Spitters Park and Wuerfel Park) is a 4,660-seat multi-use entertainment facility in Blair Township, Michigan, in the United States. It hosted its first regular season baseball game on May 24, 2006 as the tenants of the facility, the Traverse City Beach Bums,[1] took on the Kalamazoo Kings. It was built as a new home for the Beach Bums baseball team, the first in Traverse City in 93 years. In 2018, the Beach Bums' owners retired and the park sold. In 2019, Wuerfel Park became home to Traverse City's new baseball team, the Traverse City Pit Spitters of the summer collegiate Northwoods League.[2][3]
- ^ "Traverse City Beach Bums". Frontier League. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
- ^ "Introducing the Traverse City Pit Spitters!". Traverse City Pit Spitters. Northwoods League. January 29, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ Herringa, Katie (January 29, 2019). "Traverse City Baseball Announces New Team Name". MISportsNow. Retrieved January 29, 2019.