Muzzy Field

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Muzzy Field is a stadium in Bristol, Connecticut. The ballpark, which is adjacent to the city's Rockwell Park, was built in 1939 and has a capacity of 4,900 people. It is used for high school sports, primarily baseball and football. Currently three high schools employ the field: Bristol Central High School, Bristol Eastern High School, and Saint Paul Catholic High School. The stadium's charm is drawn, in part, from both the ring of tall pine trees that line the outside of the outfield wall and the brickfaced grandstand.

Muzzy Field was the home of the Double-A Bristol Red Sox of the Eastern League from 1972 to 1982. Former Boston Red Sox stars Jim Rice, Fred Lynn, and Butch Hobson honed their skills while members of the "BriSox." The ballpark also housed the old Bristol Owls of the Class-B Colonial League in 1949 and 1950, as well as various amateur baseball teams, notably the Bristol En-Dees and the local American Legion team.

Muzzy Field was the site of the Big East Conference baseball championship tournament for a number of years in the 1980s and 1990s.

In 2004 the stadium was also the site of an American Idol audition. (See The Bristol Press, August 7, 2004.)

A local, though probably apocryphal, legend holds that Babe Ruth hit the first home run in Muzzy Field when traveling with a barnstorming baseball team in the late 1930s or early 1940s.