Baseball Stadium (Nashville, Tennessee)

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Charles Hawkins Field at the McGugin Center, the home for Vanderbilt baseball, features a modern design with a classic baseball park atmosphere, including brick and iron features and 2,000 chair-back seats. Construction of the field and stadium began immediately following the 2000 baseball season, with official dedication of the field in spring 2002. Hawkins field is named in honor of the Hawkins family. Charles Hawkins III, who donated more than $1 million toward the project, played both football and baseball at Vanderbilt from 1952 to 1954 and became the first Commodore pitcher to earn all-Southeastern Conference honors. His father Charles Hawkins II lettered in both football and baseball at Vanderbilt in the mid-1920s. The new baseball press box is named in honor of Nashville sports writer Fred Russell, while the name of the complex itself honors Dan McGugin, former Vanderbilt football coach and athletic director.