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Casey Field & Boodie Albert Stadium is a
multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...
located in
Covington, Virginia Covington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,737, making it the second-least populous city in Virginia. It is surrounded by Alleghany County, of which it is also the county seat ...
. Games were first played there in 1962 and it is primarily the home of the Covington Lumberjacks of the
Valley Baseball League The Valley Baseball League is an National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA and Major League Baseball, MLB-sanctioned collegiate summer baseball, collegiate summer baseball league in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. The league was s ...
. The park served as the home of the Covington Red Sox in 1967 and the
Covington Astros The Covington Astros were a minor league baseball team that played from 1967 to 1976 in the Appalachian League. Affiliated with the Houston Astros, they were located in Covington, Virginia. They played their home games at Casey Field. In 1966, t ...
from 1968 to 1976, both members of the
Appalachian League The Appalachian League is a Collegiate summer baseball, collegiate summer baseball league that operates in the Appalachian regions of Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. Designed for rising freshmen and sophomores using wooden ...
. Casey Field also serves as the home stadium for the Alleghany High School Cougars football team. It previously served as the home stadium for the Covington High School Cougars football team from its opening until 2023, when the school merged with Alleghany.https://cardinalnews.org/2023/07/28/alleghany-and-covington-begin-their-school-merger-with-first-football-pratice-for-combined-school/


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