Shirley Povich Field

{{Short description|Baseball stadium in Montgomery County, Maryland, US}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox venue

| name =

| image = Shirley Povich Field.jpg

| image_size = 300px

| caption = Shirley Povich Field, Georgetown Hoyas vs UConn Huskies March 23, 2013

| address =

| city = Rockville, Maryland

| country =

| location =

| coordinates = {{coord|39.031053|-77.150490|type:landmark}}

| owner = Montgomery County Department of Parks{{cite web |title=Cabin John Regional Park – Athletic Area |url=https://montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/cabin-john-regional-park/athletic-area/ |website=Montgomery Parks |publisher=The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission |access-date=February 9, 2025}}

| operator = Montgomery County Department of Parks

| capacity = 800

| dimensions = Left Field: 330 ft
Center Field: 375 ft
Right Field: 330 ft

| surface = Bermuda grass

| broke_ground = December 18, 1998

| opened = {{Start date|1999|06|04}}

| tenants = Bethesda Big Train
Georgetown Hoyas baseball

}}

Shirley Povich Field is a baseball stadium in Rockville, Maryland. It is the home field of the Bethesda Big Train of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League,{{cite web |title=History - Big Train Baseball |url=https://www.bigtrain.org/history |website=Bethesda Big Train |access-date=February 9, 2025 |language=en}} and was the home field of the Georgetown Hoyas of the Big East Conference.{{cite web |last1=Yasharoff |first1=Hannah |title=A Sense of Community at Povich Field |url=https://povichcenter.umd.edu/a-sense-of-community-at-povich-field/ |website=The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism |access-date=February 9, 2025 |language=en-US |date=August 24, 2015}} The stadium holds 800 spectators. It is named after Washington Post columnist Shirley Povich. The stadium was created by renovating an existing field at Cabin John Regional Park between December 1998 and June 1999.{{cite web |title=Povich Field - Big Train Baseball |url=https://www.bigtrain.org/povich-field |website=Bethesda Big Train |access-date=February 9, 2025 |language=en |quote=The clubhouse opened just days before the Big Train's June 4, 1999 inaugural contest against the Arlington Senators.}}{{cite news |last1=Orton |first1=Kathy |title=A Field to Honor Povich |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1998/12/19/a-field-to-honor-povich/92aae941-2c7b-4542-8a00-e811650fbc61/ |access-date=July 30, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 19, 1998 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822074709/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1998/12/19/a-field-to-honor-povich/92aae941-2c7b-4542-8a00-e811650fbc61/ |archive-date=August 22, 2016}}

As part of an exhibition series to prepare for the Olympics in Japan, the Israel National Baseball Team played Bethesda Big Train in a Friendship Game at Povich Field on July 18, 2021. Team Israel came from behind in the final inning to beat the Big Train 8-7 before a standing room only crowd of 835.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}