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Chattanooga’s nine best high school baseball fields ranked

Contributed photo / Silverdale Baptist Academy has one of the nicest baseball fields in all of the Chattanooga area thanks in large part to Seahawks head coach Lance Rorex. Contributed photo / Silverdale Baptist Academy has one of the nicest baseball fields in all of the Chattanooga area thanks in large part to Seahawks head coach Lance Rorex.

By Patrick MacCoon April 17, 2024 3 min read

Here is a complete nine innings’ worth of the best high school baseball stadiums in Chattanooga, in sports writer Patrick MacCoon’s opinion.

(Times Free Press colleague Lindsey Young shared his views on the five best prep ballparks for baseball in North Georgia last month.)

1. Boyd Buchanan

Not only do home run balls take flight here, fans get a great view of planes coming to and leaving the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport.

In March 2022, Boyd Buchanan debuted its “Diamond Series” field made by AstroTurf. The synthetic turf is immaculate and was the first baseball field in Tennessee to feature BrockFILL. Instead of crumb rubber, which is most frequently used in synthetic turf sports fields as an infill — this helps support the artificial grass blades — BrockFILL is wood particles that have had splinters and fungus cleared away before the particles are rounded off. This reduces rubbing to a minimum when baserunners slide.