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I've noticed information that is actually, factually erroneous, period.

Doug Kingsmore Stadium has never "officially" been called "Beautiful Tiger Field." It's official name was "Tiger Field," period. The announcers added the adjective "beautiful" the same way one would call Chicago "the Windy City:" that's not Chicago's official name, that's it's NICKNAME. It was named Doug Kingsmore Stadium in 1970; in 2003, Kingsmore Stadium underwent extensive renovation, not a name change.

Not only is the opening information non-factual, I looked at the source, and that's not even what your source is saying! It's saying that calling it that could be considered its proper name, it's so beautiful. By the rules of the English language, it did not say that this was its official name at any time.

However, as a 1995 alumnus, FANATICAL Clemson Baseball fan dating back even more years than that, and Baseball Historian with a Masters in History from Clemson, I know for a fact that its official name was Doug Kingsmore Stadium when I was enrolled from 1992-96, and ever since then. In fact, here's some insider trivia for you: in the 1992-1993 school year, which turned out to the the last year for legendary Clemson Baseball Coach Bill Wilhelm, Coach Wilhelm personally told me that he had been planning another year at the school, but he was informed that the school was going to make a big deal of his final year, which included renaming the field (not the stadium, but the field) for him. Eschewing the limelight and tributes, Coach Wilhelm at that time told me that he was going to thwart their efforts, but he didn't intimate to me how. It turned out that he did this by retiring a year earlier than he told the school he was going to, asking them to not hold any ceremonies renaming anything in his name once he was no longer the coach, either. Since he already had his successor in place - Jack Leggett had left a head coaching position at Maine to be Coach Wilhelm's assistant, with just a library desk in Coach Wilhelm's office for his "office" - that year, so he could learn from Wilhelm all he could before taking over, it was easier for Coach Wilhelm to do, because he could just hand Jack the reins a year earlier (you'd have to ask Jack if that was the plan all along, that I don't know). If it wasn't for Coach Wilhelm's lack of egotism, since 1993, it would be called Bill Wilhelm Field at Doug Kingsmore Stadium, but it isn't - it's been Doug Kingsmore Stadium since long before I got there! Also, I was there when Bob Bradley was - another Clemson legend, longtime Athletic Director and another font of Clemson sports information. He was still there in Emeritus status, and I spoke with him on many occasions about Clemson baseball history - I studied Baseball History while at Clemson, so that's why I talked to so many people in the athletic department, knew many baseball players, went to all the home games and Athens/Atlanta away games, and still retain as much information as I do. I watch the Clemson baseball games online now, since they are almost all televised, and I know what all has changed at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. What hasn't changed is its name, official or not; what has changed is how it looks, its amenities, and its seating capacity. I'm going to leave this in "Talk" for a few days before I make major revisions to this section, reflecting factual information about its name, including citation to the sources that know the best what the team's stadium's name has been: the official team website. Kelelain (talk) 19:02, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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