Hawkins Field - Vanderbilt Commodores Baseball

​The Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team represents Vanderbilt University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the Eastern division of the Southeastern Conference. The Commodores, named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment, play their home games on campus at Hawkins Field.

Hawkins Field opened in 2002 adjacent to Vanderbilt Stadium and Memorial Gymnasium and holds 3,700 people.

The Vanderbilt athletics site describes its "brick and wrought-iron fence design". Its left field wall is 35 feet high, a comparable height to the legendary Green Monster at Fenway Park. Memorial Gymnasium is behind the left field fence, and Vanderbilt Stadium's east bleachers are adjacent to the third base stands.

On May 27, 2007 Hawkins Field was selected as a regional host site for the 2007 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. A new scoreboard was erected and new temporary bleachers were added in right field to bring the capacity to near 3,700 for the tournament (and also the 2008 season). In late 2008, further expansions increased the stadium's permanent seating capacity to 3,700. This includes 2,200 chairback seats and 1,500 bleacher seats. The dugouts were also renovated and a new trainer's room added.

Beginning in 2010, the Nashville Outlaws, a wooden bat summer collegiate baseball team of the Prospect League, will begin using Hawkins Field as their home ballpark.