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Billy Bullens Field is a multipurpose stadium in Westfield, Massachusetts. Bullens Field is the baseball and football home field for
Westfield High School Westfield High School may refer to: * The Westfield School, Perry, Georgia * Westfield High School (Westfield, Indiana) * Westfield High School (Massachusetts), Westfield, Massachusetts * Westfield Technical Academy, Westfield, Massachusetts * W ...
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Westfield Technical Academy Westfield Technical Academy (formerly known as Westfield Vocational Technical High School) is a technical, coeducational, four-year public high school, part of the Westfield Public Schools district in Westfield, Massachusetts Westfield is a cit ...
. Bullens Field is also the home field for the Westfield Starfires of the
Futures Collegiate Baseball League The Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) is an eight-team collegiate summer baseball league. It has four franchises in Massachusetts, two in Connecticut, and one each in New Hampshire and Vermont. Format The Futures League is a wood-bat ...
(FCBL). Originally named Municipal Field, the stadium was built in 1937, and officially dedicated in 1938, as part of a larger project of ball fields, grandstands, a playground and tennis courts constructed by the
Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, in ...
(WPA). Billy Bullens was the assistant supervisor of the new facilities and in charge of the park maintenance for many years. The field was renamed for him in the early 1980s. Bullens Field hosted the Babe Ruth 14-Year-Old World Series in 2016 and the Babe Ruth 13-Year-Old World Series in August 2019.


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* {{Futures League Stadiums Sports venues in Hampden County, Massachusetts Futures Collegiate Baseball League ballparks Sports venues completed in 1938 Westfield, Massachusetts 1938 establishments in Massachusetts