Billy Grant Field

Overview of Billy Grant Field at Valdosta State, Mar-2022.

The seating bowl and press box.

Early-in-game action on the natural surface.

• Location: Valdosta State University North Campus, Patterson Street, Valdosta, Ga. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: Before 1979 as Billy Grant Field
• Additional names: Billy Grant Field at Tommy Thomas Park (2017)
• Home team: Valdosta State Blazers, Gulf South Conference
• Capacity: 1,000

The baseball and softball fields are located on the North Campus, which hosted Emory Junior College (a two-year division of Emory University) until 1953, when Valdosta State took over the campus.

The field has apparently been named for Billy Grant, the head coach back in the 1960s, since it opened. In 2017, an additional dedication was made as Tommy Thomas Park to honor the head coach who served the school for forty years and led the Blazers to a Division II national championship in 1979. In general, though, the school still refers to the facility as Billy Grant Field.

Metal bleachers surround a natural surface at the ball field, while a sizable press box sits directly behind home plate. There is a berm down the third-base line on which some fans set up folding chairs in order to watch the game.