The St. Marys Cement Company field construction started in 1997 and was completed in 1998. The first game was played on the field on June 4, 1998. It was named after the St. Marys Cement Company who donated the 32 acres of land to the Hall of Fame.
Cement Field was built by Mar-co Clay products and is our only full-size ballfield. The right field corner was extended in 2004, the dugouts were built in 2006 and the backstop was replaced in 2021.
The left field corner is a short 281 ft from homeplate, but with the additional “green monster” type fence it’s much harder to hit a homerun than it sounds.
What is the St. Marys Cement Company?
The factory which you can see to the Southwest of the museum site is the St. Marys Cement Company. When the town of St. Marys was bidding to become the new home of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1994, one of the criteria that pushed the town to the forefront was the donation of the 32-acre site by the cement company.
St. Marys Cement was founded in the town of St. Marys, ON by John Lind and Alfred Rogers in 1912. The town was chosen for the location of the plant due to the abundance of resources the area had to offer – St. Marys isn’t called the “Stonetown” for nothing! Limestone has been quarried in the area since the 1800s, making St. Marys Cement one of the most successful cement companies in North America, and at over a century of life, one of the oldest too.
A quarry exists just to the Northwest of the museum site that has filled in with water and was converted in the 1940s into a public swimming area. It is a choice swimming hole if you’re looking for somewhere to cool off this summer!
For Quarry information and rates, visit the Town of St. Marys site here: Quarry Information
