College Park (Charleston)

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College Park is a stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. It was primarily used for baseball and was the home of Charleston RiverDogs. The ballpark has a capacity of 4,000 people and opened in 1939.

College Park was the primary shooting location for the 1998 film Major League: Back to the Minors, in which it was called "Buzz Stadium."

College Park hosted some of baseball's greatest players of all time including Ty Cobb and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. It has been stated on certain baseball history sites that College Park actually opened in 1897 for the Charleston Seagulls. But the College Park, which stands today, is said to have opened in 1939.

College Park said goodbye to professional baseball in 1996 when the Class A Tampa Bay Devil Rays affiliate, now a Yankees affiliate, Charleston Riverdogs left the stadium for a new facility on the bank of the Ashley River in Charleston.

The stadium is used for The Citadel Bulldogs practice, especially when Riley Stadium is unavailable, and used by many community teams during the season. It sits near Hampton Park.