'Dodgers Dreamfields' complex unveiled in Compton on Jackie Robinson Day
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‘Dodgers Dreamfields’ complex unveiled in Compton
LOS ANGELES - The completion of Phase One of the $2.7 million Dodgers Dreamfields complex in Compton was unveiled Thursday, coinciding with the 74th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
The project at Gonzales Park features three fields with new playing surfaces, fencing, dugouts, irrigation, lighting, paint and scoreboards. It is the largest Dodgers Dreamfields project.
Field 42, named for the uniform number Robinson wore with the Dodgers, is designed for baseball and softball players ages 5 to 8. Rachel Robinson Field, named for Jackie Robinson's wife, is designed for baseball players ages 9 to 12 and softball players 9 to 18.