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Goss Stadium At Coleman Field

Built: 1907 (renovated 1999, 2009 and 2015)
Dimensions: 330-Left, 365-Left Center, 400-Center, 365-Right Center, 330-Right (8 feet fences, 14 feet in left field)
Seating capacity: 3,587
Oregon State All-Time record at Goss: 1,289-527-2 (.710)
Longest OSU win streak: 24 games (1951-52)

First Game: April 12, 1907 (Salem High 4, Oregon State 0)
First Night Game: April 26, 2002 (Oregon State 3, Stanford 1)

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Goss Stadium at Coleman Field, which has stood on the Oregon State campus since 1907, is now the oldest continuous ballpark in the nation. The Beavers have played at the site of Goss Stadium since the program began play more than 100 years ago.

The stadium itself has undergone numerous changes - including multiple renovations and expansions - but the playing field itself has stood in place since day one.

And just like day one, Goss, formerly known just as Coleman Field, has hosted games in front of one of the best fanbases in the nation.

• Goss Stadium at Coleman Field is nestled into the heart of the Oregon State campus, giving the Beavers a unique home-field advantage.
• The nation’s coaches, in a review by D1Baseball.com during the 2016 offseason, chose Goss as one of the top 10 most intimidating stadiums for opposing teams. Oregon State was the only school from the Pac-12 Conference to be listed.
• Goss Stadium seats 3,587 fans.
• The stadium has undergone numerous expansions and renovations. The first expansion occurred in 1999, with Coleman Field receiving its current name. The stadium, at the time, seated 2,000.
• Oregon State added lights for the first time in school history in 2002. The Beavers defeated Stanford in the first game under the lights.
• In 2009, Pat Casey and the Beavers expanded Goss Stadium. Nearly 800 seats were added down the left and right field lines. In addition, a new player’s lounge was added under the third-base stands. The first-base side of the stadium saw an addition of the Omaha Room, a suite level for fans during games, in addition to a trophy room and player’s classroom.
• Further expansion came about in 2015. Goss Stadium received turf throughout the stadium - minus the pitcher’s mound - and the Jacoby Ellsbury Clubouse was built in foul territory near the left field fence. The generous donation from Ellsbury, an Oregon State alum, helped Oregon State erect one of the top clubhouses in the nation.
• More renovations were made to Goss Stadium to include the renovation of the player’s lounge, now named the Bert and Shirley Babb Player’s Lounge, in addition to the Darwin Barney Alumni Room, located adjacent to first base.
• The player’s lounge renovation came thanks to a collaborative crowdfunding campaign, which raised just under $105,000 from a total of 259 donations. The campaign, which lasted just 30 days, was the largest of its kind for Oregon State Athletics and was the first such campaign hosted by OSU to reach six figures, surpassing the original fundraising goal by nearly $30,000.
• A new videboard was built before the start of the 2016 season, and immediately the fifth-largest in the nation. The board is nearly 26-feet high and 50-feet high, double the size of the previous videboard at Goss. The previous videoboard, built before the start of the 2007 season, was the first of its kind in the then-Pacific-10 Conference.
• Construction began in the Fall of 2018 on a “Casey Corner” deck down the right field line - and above the visitor’s bullpen. The deck mirrors “Banners” down the left field line. The Omaha Room down the first base line was also renovated.

• The 2022 season saw Oregon State set a single-season record by averaging 3,679 per home date. That surpassed the previous best of 3,666 in 2019. Oregon State ranked 19th nationally for average attendance in 2022.
• Fourteen of the top-25 single-game attendance marks came during the 2022 season.
• Oregon State topped 100,000 fans at Goss in 2019, for the third consecutive season.
• In 2018, Oregon State surpassed one million fans at Goss since the stadium was renovated in 1999.
• The 2018 Beavers went 27-5 at home en route to their third national title.
• OSU has gone 115-38 at home since 2017, an .752 winning percentage.
• The Beavers won a school-record 31 home games in 2017, going 31-1 overall.
• The Beavers ranked in the top 25 in attendance, nationally, in seven straight seasons from 2013 to 2019.
• OSU ended the 2018 season ranked 16th.
• Oregon State averaged a then-single-season record 2,937 fans per home game in 2016. That mark topped the previous best of 2,931 in 2014. The Beavers ranked 22nd nationally for attendance in 2016, ranking behind only Arizona among Pac-12 schools.
• In 2015, the Beavers were 25th nationally, and second in the Pac-12.
• Oregon State, behind a second consecutive postseason host opportunity, averaged a then-school best 2,931 fans over 30 home dates in 2014. That mark placed Oregon State 19th nationally and first in the Pac-12.
• In 2013, Oregon State advanced to its fifth College World Series and saw 2,676 fans per game. That ranked the Beavers 24th nationally and third in the conference.

• Oregon State has played 1,789 games at Goss Stadium at Coleman Field, carrying a 1,289-527-2 (.710) mark all-time.
• Oregon State has won 27 or more games at home four times: 2006, 2013 and 2018 (27) and 2017 (31). The Beavers advanced to Omaha each season.
• Oregon State has won 20 or more games at Goss Stadium 11 times. Ten of the 11 seasons have come since 2006.
• The Beavers have posted a winning record at home in each of the last 17 years, and in 20 of the last 22.
• Oregon State is 40-11 (.784) at Goss Stadium during the postseason. The Beavers hosted their first-ever postseason game in 1952, defeating Fresno State, 2-1.
• The Beavers are 27-7 (.794) in NCAA Regional games at home, and 13-4 (.764) in NCAA Super Regional games.

The park has an interesting history, to say the least.

When Oregon State began fielding a varsity baseball team in 1907, the school laid out a diamond on a lot just south of the main campus. A century later, that same site still serves as the home of the Beavers, making Goss Stadium at Coleman Field the oldest diamond in the Pac-12 Conference and the oldest college fields in the country.

Over the past century, the campus has grown around Goss Stadium at Coleman Field, making it one of the most picturesque settings in college baseball. The ballpark is a short walk down Waldo Place from the Memorial Union and OSU’s central campus area, making it easy for students to stop by a game between classes.

The field is named for former Oregon State player and coach Ralph Coleman, who guided the Beavers for 35 seasons from 1923-66. The stadium is named for John and Eline Goss, whose major lead gift to the $2.3-million fundraising effort made the project possible.

John Goss was an Oregon State track and field letterman in the 1930s. The naming of the stadium is also a memorial to his older brother, James Goss, an Oregon State graduate.

The Goss family made additional contributions to OSU toward endowed scholarships for student/athletes and other top academic students, including graduates of Portland’s Grant High and members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

The park is symmetrical, measuring 330 feet down the foul lines, 365 to the power alleys and 400 to center. The fence is 14 feet high from left field to left-center, then eight feet high from left-center to right field.

The concrete, steel and brick structure has a press box, a lobby/concession area, restrooms, locker rooms, dugouts and storage areas. The stadium was designed to complement the architecture of the surrounding campus, and to evoke the aura of baseball’s historic parks.

The first game after the addition of Goss Stadium to Coleman Field was on March 12, 1999, when defending national champion Southern California topped the Beavers 5-2. The stadium was dedicated on April 17, 1999 as OSU beat California 11-5 before a crowd of 1,246 and a national cable television audience.

The ballpark saw its first night game on April 26, 2002, as the Beavers beat fourth-ranked Stanford 3-1. A set of lights meeting professional Class Triple-A standards was installed that spring thanks to the generosity of longtime OSU boosters Bert and Shirley Babb.

Goss Stadium at Coleman Field has batting cages behind the left-field fence. When conditions call for indoor practice, the Beavers head for OSU’s Truax Indoor Practice Facility, which opened in August, 2001. The team’s players can also head to the McAlexander Fieldhouse, which was renovated in 2011 to provide the Beavers with two new batting cages that are available year-round. The Fieldhouse is located across a small parking lot beyond left field.

The addition of Goss Stadium to Coleman Field ended years of speculation over whether the Beavers would be able to remain playing baseball at their longtime home.

As Oregon State expanded, land near the center of campus became scarce and the school’s master plan called for the site to eventually be turned over to academic uses.

In 1961, The Oregonian newspaper noted: “In the not-too-distant future, Oregon State baseball hopefuls won’t have railroad tracks as a long-distance batting target. Coleman Field will eventually hold no basepaths, only buildings in this era of construction for higher education. Already one classroom building for this site is beyond the drawing board stage.”

For over 30 years, that possibility prevented any major improvements to Coleman Field. Long-term plans for the OSU campus called for moving the baseball field southeast of the intersection of Western Boulevard and 26th Street.

In 1996, the baseball program explored building a press box and storage/concession building at Coleman Field. The possibility of building a stadium was also looked into, and that gradually became the goal of the baseball program and many Beaver boosters.

The generous donation from the Goss family was the key to a private fundraising effort in the late 1990s. The ballpark’s name was ammended to Goss Stadium at Coleman Field in their honor in 1999.