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FAU Baseball Stadium

baseball stadium in Florida, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5424509
Source-derived summary

FAU Baseball Stadium is a baseball venue located in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. It has been home to the Florida Atlantic Owls baseball team since 1991. The venue has a capacity of 2,000 spectators and features Triple-A-quality lighting.

Attendance record

On April 16, 2008, the Owls were defeated at FAU Baseball Stadium by the then-#1 ranked Miami Hurricanes. The 2,348 spectators in attendance set a stadium record.

Features

The venue features a berm seating area, which allows for increased capacity, down each foul line.

Praise and criticism

In 2012, college baseball writer Eric Sorenson ranked the stadium as the fifth best small venue in Division I baseball.

Others, including players and coaches from the program, have criticized the facility's poor conditions.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “FAU Baseball Stadium” as baseball stadium in Florida, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2008, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Baseball, Stadium and baseball can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as baseball stadium in Florida, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5424509. Authority coordinates are 26.371, -80.109. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2008 and 2012.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from FAU Baseball Stadium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.