Bill Meyer Stadium

For other people named Bill Meyer, see Bill Meyer (disambiguation).

Bill Meyer Stadium was a baseball field located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

It was named after Billy Meyer (1892–1957), a Knoxville native who was a catcher and manager in Major League Baseball and a longtime minor league skipper.

Baseball Usage

It was used by minor league baseball teams, most recently the Knoxville Smokies, an AA Minor League Baseball team. It had a capacity of 6,400 people. The stadium was closed in 1999 after the team moved to a new stadium near Sevierville. The stands were demolished, and bleachers with capacity for about 100 people were installed.

The stadium is now used as a venue for amateur baseball games.

Football Usage

In the early part of the 1970s, Bill Meyer Stadium, which had sat empty for several years, was converted into a Pop Warner recreational football league facility. The 100 yard field was striped from the third base side of the diamond, extending out to the right field warning track area. A great majority of the football plays were snapped from the dirt area of the infield. It became the home field for the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) midget (11-12 year-old) football team which held daily practices throughout the fall in the dirt parking area outside the stadium.

External links

• Bill Meyer Stadium
• Bill Meyer Stadium, Great American BASEBALL TRIPS
• www.ballparkreviews.com/knox/meyer.h
• Bill Meyer Stadium