Harvey Woods Field
 

Harvey Woods

The Daniel Webster College Eagles baseball team plays its home games on campus at Harvey Woods Field.
 

Harvey Woods Field has already seen its share of memories including the play of 2006 GNAC Co-Player of the Year, and NCAA Division III batting champion, Chris Shanahan.

Completed in 2005, the field is named in honor of Harvey Woods, long-serving athletic director and baseball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J. The naming was brought about through a tremendous gift toward the cost of the field by College Trustee Fred Roedel. Mr. Roedel chose to name the field for his mentor and college baseball coach.

Moved by a desire to help the college complete its plan for recreational fields and the previous homelessness of the Eagles team, Mr. Roedel and his wife, Kay, pledged their support to accelerate the construction of a first-class baseball field so that the team could end their nomadic existence. The team had been playing their home games at various other Nashua ball fields.

Mr. Roedel, a former DWC chairman of the Board of Trustees, knows what college baseball can mean. He played baseball in college and has a keen respect for the value of intercollegiate sport and the character shaping role coaches can have.

As part of continuing the Woods legacy, the Eagles also host an annual Fall Baseball Tournament, known as the Harvey Woods Classic.