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Sewell-Thomas Stadium provides the Crimson Tide baseball team with one of the finest ballparks in college baseball.
Sewell-Thomas Stadium opened in 1948 as 2,000-seat Thomas Field and drew many overflow crowds in the 1950s and 1960s. It was renamed in 1978 to honor Joe Sewell, a former UA football and baseball standout who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977.
In 1991, a permanent grandstand was opened and the ballpark's name was changed from Sewell-Thomas Field to Sewell-Thomas Stadium.
The latest expansion, in 2001, created 2,000 new seats to bring capacity to more than 6,000. Other improvements included indoor batting cages and pitching machines.
Sewell-Thomas Stadium is building 51 on the campus map.
