"New ballpark: 'You can start to feel it'" The Columbus Dispatch

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Jim Massie
The Columbus Dispatch
May 11, 2008

Huntington Park suddenly is more than a $56 million dream or hole in the ground sandwiched between Nationwide Arena and the Buggyworks building. The Clippers will move their triple-A baseball operation from Cooper Stadium to this state-of-the-art ballpark for the 2009 season. The Coop, born Red Bird Stadium, has been the historic home of Columbus professional baseball since its opening in 1931.

"This is the oldest triple-A stadium in the country," Schnacke said. "The only older major-league facilities are Yankee Stadium, which is soon to be replaced, and Wrigley Field and Fenway Park, which have had tons of renovations."

Talk of building a stadium for the Clippers at a different location had circulated for the past decade. Proposed sites have ranged from the Brewery District to River South, Grandview and Easton...