Hunter Wright Stadium
Hunter Wright Stadium is a baseball park in Kingsport, Tennessee, named for the popular multi-term former mayor. It is the home field of Kingsport Axmen of the summer collegiate Appalachian League. It was previously home to the Kingsport Mets, a Rookie-level Minor League Baseball affiliate of the New York Mets of the Appalachian League from 1995 to 2020. Built in 1995, it seats 2,500 people.
  Hunter Wright Stadium Location within Tennessee | |
| Former names | Kingsport Sports Complex |
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| Address | 800 Granby Road |
| Location | Kingsport, Tennessee United States |
| Coordinates | 36°33′46″N 82°35′55″W |
| Type | Baseball stadium |
| Capacity | 2,500 |
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| Surface | Grass |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1995 |
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The stadium's location, just a couple of miles from the Tennessee-Virginia line, allows Gate City High School in nearby Gate City, Virginia, to rent the field for its baseball games, making Hunter Wright the home field for its Blue Devils baseball team.[1] The facility also hosts a few home games for Kingsport's Dobyns-Bennett High School Indians, returning the favor from when the K-Mets played at the high school's field.
Since 1998, it has hosted the Coca-Cola Classic, a series of baseball games between local high school teams.[2][3]
References
- "Hunter Wright Stadium Information". Kingsport Mets. Minor League Baseball. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- Thwaites, George. "Coca-Cola Classic: Vikings come alive against Pats after being taken to woodshed by 'Betsy". KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS. Kingsport Publishing Corporation. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- Wilmoth, Steve (26 February 2014). "Schedule Announced for 2014 Coca-Cola Classic". Tri-Cities Sports. Retrieved 7 April 2015.