ball field
noun
variants
or ballfield
: a field for playing a sport using a ball
especially
: a baseball field
The 14-year-old Astroturf surface at Dean Field in Bloomfield, one of the city's most popular ball fields, will be replaced with real grass next year. —
Jon Schmitz
Jon Schmitz In Minneapolis, they tore down Met Stadium for a polyester ballfield with a roof over it, a ghostly greenish plastic baseball mall, and all those lovely summer nights were lost. —Garrison Keillor
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The park features inland lakes and streams, hiking trails, picnic shelters, ball fields, fishing, mountain biking and more.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The location had a balcony overseeing Petco Park, a ball field.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
The Brutalist concrete high school is surrounded by ball fields and a sea of parking.
—Ben Adler, USA Today, 12 June 2025
The Parks Department began to take care of the woods in Alley Pond Park about a decade after the city’s landscape was transformed by bankruptcy in the 1970s, when just the barest minimums of parklands were maintained — ball fields and playgrounds mostly.
—Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
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Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The location had a balcony overseeing Petco Park, a ball field.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
The Brutalist concrete high school is surrounded by ball fields and a sea of parking.
—Ben Adler, USA Today, 12 June 2025
The Parks Department began to take care of the woods in Alley Pond Park about a decade after the city’s landscape was transformed by bankruptcy in the 1970s, when just the barest minimums of parklands were maintained — ball fields and playgrounds mostly.
—Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
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“Ball field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ball%20field. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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