The Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George (RCB Ballpark) is a baseball stadium located on the north-eastern tip of Staten Island.  The ballpark is the home of the Staten Island Yankees, the NY-Penn League affiliate of the New York Yankees, and of Wagner College Seahawks Baseball.  The ballpark was also home of the city’s Pro Cricket team the New York Storm.

RCB Ballpark opened in 2001 and was designed by HOK Sport + Venue + Event.  The design of the ballpark features sails at the entrances due to its location next to the world famous Staten Island Ferry.  All major local buses and the Staten Island Railway ends at the Ferry Terminal which is less then a five minute walk from the ballpark.  The Ballpark at St. George is more commonly referred to as Staten Island Yankees Stadium instead of its much longer name.

The site on which the ballpark was built was once the site of the B&O Railroad rail yards by the City of New York and the current stadium parking lot was the site of Major League baseball in the 1880s.

Design

The Richmond County Bank Ballpark was designed to take advantage of the stadium’s location overlooking New York Harbor.  The main entrance to the stadium is located on street level with the seating bowl and field built below street level.  Sails at each entrance are a reference to boats which are always passing beyond the outfield wall.  The batters’ eye in centerfield is able to retract so you can view the skyline of New York City.

A replica of the Verrazano Bridge is located on top of the main scoreboard.

The outfield walls changed several times over the course of the Stadium’s history.  Originally the stadium had four LED video boards spaced out on the outfield wall that will display rotating advertisements throughout the game.  After these boards malfunctioned the team replaced them with traditional signage along the wall.  These signs were replaced with a new 200 foot long video board in right field in 2007.  The new video board is one of the longest in the minors.  Also in 2007 the Ballpark received a brand new High Definition main video board on top of the scoreboard.

Miscellaneous

RCB Ballpark has 18 regular sized luxury suites along with a 60-person Skyline Suite with one of the best views of the harbor.

Currently the RCB Ballpark is home of the very first Professional Baseball Scouts Wall of Fame along the right field concourse.  Members of the Scout Wall of Fame include Cesar Presbott, John Hagemann, Billy Blitzer, Gil Bassetti, Ralph Dilullo, Roland Hemond, and Herb Stein.