Robertson Field at Satow Stadium
Robertson Field, at one time named Andy Coakley Field, is Columbia University's varsity baseball facility at Baker Athletics Complex. It is named after Hal Robertson SEAS'81, who donated $1 million in support of the facility. [1]
On May 17, 1939, the baseball venue at Baker Field played host to the first live television broadcast of an athletics event. A Columbia-Princeton baseball game was carried by the National Broadcasting Company to the 400 or so sets then capable of receiving its broadcast signal. Satisfied with the result, NBC decided to try doing a major league game. Five months later it did, from Brooklyn's Ebbets Field.
The venue features an all-Field Turf surface, with the exceptions of the pitcher's mound, home plate area and running track.
