J.C. Love Field

Entering its 38th year of service, modern J.C. Love Field continues to be one of the top playing facilities in the South. Opened in 1971, the stadium has seen the Bulldogs amass an impressive 648-351-1 (.649) home record since the stadium's construction.

The facility has undergone several renovations in recent years. There is a new outfield fence that has been moved back as much as 20 feet in some places and has been raised. The dimensions of the field are now (left-to-right) 315-370-385-340-325. The outfield wall has been raised to 12 feet from the left-field corner around to right center where it will remain at eight feet from right-center to the right-field line. Other additions in the last few years include a new paint job, a new warning track, new lockers for the Bulldogs, windscreens down the right- and left-field lines, and a visitors' bullpen.

New for the 2008 season are a brand-new scoreboard beyond the right-field wall and a smaller scoreboard display behind home plate that will face the outfield and the University Park Apartments that sit beyond the left-field fence. Approximately 400 new chairback seats have been added to the already-existing 300 to give more options to Tech season-ticket holders. In anticipation of an influx of media for the 2008 Western Athletic Conference Tournament, a new press box will be completed by mid-season that will provide two radio booths, two television booths and seating for up to 15 media members.

Centrally located on the Louisiana Tech campus, J.C. Love Field features a seating capacity of 3,500, many of which are chairback for added comfort. The facility also boasts large picnic and viewing areas beyond the outfield fences that are very popular with Tech fans and intimidating to visiting teams, including the infamous "Right Field Rowdies."

Love Field also features complete team facilities underneath the main stadium structure, including two locker rooms, showers, training rooms and coaches' offices. A players' lounge was built adjacent to the home locker room, and new restroom facilities have been added behind the third-base dugout. Recently, an enclosed batting tunnel was added down the left-field line.

An expertly-manicured field helps Tech boast one of the finest playing surfaces available and is enhanced by a fully-automated sprinkler system. Lights were installed prior to the 1978 season, and in 1997, a school-record 3,251 fans packed the stadium and the hills beyond the outfield to watch the Bulldogs play eventual national champion LSU.

The facility, known as Tech Stadium until 1982, was named in honor of J.C. Love, a Ruston businessman who whole-heartedly supported the Tech baseball program and the university as a whole.