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1878 – present
The baseball grounds: Greenstocking Park (1878) was the first; Springbrook Park, later Playland Park, served from 1903 to 1932 and again for the Blue Sox, 1946–54; Bendix Field held the Blue Sox' first three seasons, 1943–45. Playland Park was the city's multi-sport ground of the middle century — baseball, the racing oval, the fairs — before the amusement park closed and the ground passed to other uses.
The modern ballpark: Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium, now Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium, has held the modern club since 1988: about 5,000 seats as opened, nearly 10,500 after the 2024–26 renovation — the venue arc told whole in the entries above.
The university arenas: The Joyce Center opened in 1968; its basketball configuration is Purcell Pavilion, capacity 9,149, home to both Notre Dame basketball programs and to the 2026 fencing championships. The Compton Family Ice Arena, opened 2011, seats 5,022 for hockey.
The rest of the line: The Palais Royale (1922) — ballroom, boxing arena, and in its time a bowling and roller venue on South Michigan Street; the Morris Performing Arts Center across the street stands in the Theaters record and is cross-referenced, not retold, here. Chippewa Bowl carries the bowling record from 1975. South Bend Motor Speedway (1946) is the city's surviving oval. TCU School Field held the Lions; the Warren Golf Course held a U.S. Senior Open. Taken together, the city's sporting plant is a fair summary of its sporting history: a nineteenth-century ball ground, a factory-era park, a downtown ballpark rebuilt for a fifth time, and a university's arenas across the line in Notre Dame.
Sources:
- Ballpark, arena and venue records as cited in the entries above — this entry consolidates their venue facts and adds no new claims.