Robertson Field at Satow Stadium

543 West 218th Street | also 501 West 218th Street | Inwood Hill Park | built 2015

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1923
Columbia opens its baseball field at the island's northern tip
The ballfield opens at 218th Street and Broadway, at the northern tip of Manhattan. Because Spuyten Duyvil Creek runs so close by, its center-field fence is extremely shallow compared with the left- and right-field fences. It becomes home to Columbia Lions baseball and is later named Robertson Field at Satow Stadium after alumni Phillip Satow (class of 1963) and Hal Robertson (class of 1981).
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2010
The stadium adds chairback seating and renovates its press box and dugouts
Three years after a FieldTurf surface is installed to allow more offseason use, Columbia adds chairback seats and renovates the dugouts, press box and scoreboard. The 1,500-seat stadium goes on to host the Ivy League Baseball Championship Series that year.
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2013
Columbia sweeps a doubleheader to open the Ivy title series
Hosting the Ivy League Baseball Championship Series for the second time, Columbia opens with a doubleheader sweep before 952 fans and goes on to win the league title. The Lions win the series again in 2014, having also hosted it in 2010, when Dartmouth took the title.
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