Long Field at Mauck Stadium is a baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 venue

Baseball field

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 located on the campus of James Madison University

James Madison University

James Madison University is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U.S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University...

 in Harrisonburg

Harrisonburg, Virginia

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, USA. It was home to the James Madison Dukes

James Madison Dukes

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 baseball

College baseball

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 team, a member of the Division I Colonial Athletic Association

Colonial Athletic Association

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 until the end of the 2009 season. The Long Field portion of the facility was constructed in 1974, with the Mauck Stadium portion being completed in 1978. The venue has a capacity of 1,200.

Long Field is named after J. Ward Long, a former professor

Professor

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 at the university who also coached the golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, and cross country running

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

teams. Mauck Stadium is named in honor of J. Leonard Mauck, a former board member at James Madison.