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Founders Park, formerly known as Carolina Stadium, is a stadium in Columbia, South Carolina on the banks of the Congaree River. The facility was built for a cost of $35.6 million and is used for college baseball as home to the University of South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team. ==Facility overview== The dimensions of the field are down the right and left-field lines and to dead center, matching those of Sarge Frye Field, the previous home stadium of the Gamecocks. The baseball training facilities at the stadium include four indoor batting tunnels, a weight room, team clubhouse, coaches offices, and a sports medicine room. Among the numerous amenities for fans, there are five luxury suites and two club-level seating areas with lounges, a Gamecock store just inside the main entrance in the outfield plaza, along with a picnic terrace that accommodates around 120 people down the left-field line. The scoreboard towers over the left field wall and features a 28-by-16 foot video screen. The main stadium entrance, to Founders Park, is located at the northeast corner of the grounds directly behind the centerfield wall. Following the 2010 national championship, USC had a mural applied to the back-side of its centerfield wall, (to be viewed as visitors and fans enter onto stadium grounds), the mural celebrated the 2010 CWS Title. In addition a showcase was built at the base of the wall for the display of the 2010 CWS National Championship Trophy. The mural and trophy case have since been updated to honor both the 2010 CWS Championship Team and the 2011 College World Series Championship Team. In 2013, the website ''Stadium Journey'' ranked Carolina Stadium as the second best Division I baseball venue, and received an average rating 4.6 of 5 stars in 7 categories. 〔http://www.stadiumjourney.com/news/06-18-2013/382/2013-ncaa-baseball-ballpark-rankings/〕 In 2014, the website ''Stadium Journey'' ranked Carolina Stadium as the best Division I baseball venue, and received an average rating 4.7 of 5 stars in 7 categories. 〔http://www.stadiumjourney.com/news/07-13-2014/717/ncaa-ballpark-experience-rankings-2014〕 In 2015, the facility name was officially changed from Carolina Stadium to Founders Park, becoming only the third college baseball stadium in the United States to earn a corporate sponsorship. 〔http://www.wltx.com/story/sports/ncaa/usc-gamecocks/2015/10/22/usc-baseball-stadium-called-founders-park/74392686/〕〔http://www.gamecocksonline.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/102215aab.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carolina Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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