Friedman Diamond is home to Northeastern University Baseball.
Directions to Friedman Diamond
From the West (Massachusetts Turnpike): Take Exit 18 (Allston/Cambridge) toward Cambridge. Take right at first set of lights toward downtown Boston onto Storrow Drive. Continue for one mile and take first exit at Boston University onto Commonwealth Avenue (one-way). Take left at second set of lights (St. Paul Street). Continue for six blocks and take left at second set of lights onto Beacon Street (Holiday Inn on left). Take first right onto Kent Street. Parsons Field is 2/10 of a mile on the right.
From the South & West (128/95): Take Exit #20A, Route 9 East. Continue for five miles (10 lights) and take left onto Brookline Avenue toward hospitals and Kenmore Square. Take second left onto Aspinwall Avenue. At first set of lights take right onto Kent Street. Parsons Field is immediately on left.
From the North (93 & 95 across Tobin Bridge): Take Exit 26 (Storrow Drive) and follow signs for Storrow Drive West. Take Kenmore Square exit. Take first right off exit onto Beacon Street, staying in middle lane. Do not bear right onto Commonwealth Avenue to Boston University or take left onto Brookline Avenue. Continue on Beacon Street for one mile and take left onto Kent Street (before Holiday Inn). Parsons Field is 2/10 of a mile on the right.
Public Transportation: Take the "D" car of the Green Line to Longwood. Exit train, take a left up the hill to Longwood Ave. Take a right onto Longwood and then first left onto Kent Street. Parsons Field is ahead, one-tenth of a mile on the right.
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Friedman Diamond Summary and History
The Husky baseball team has a first-class facility at Friedman Diamond in Brookline. Prior to the 2002 season, the field was entirely resurfaced with state-of-the-art AstroPlay, a synthetic artificial material that matches the look and feel of natural grass.
NU has played its games in the same lot since 1925. The earliest Husky teams used the Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, which had been abandoned by the Red Sox in 1912. The long history of the seven acres on Kent Street starts with the lot as a park. Before being purchased by the YMCA in 1925 for NU and Huntington Prep School, it was a public playground often frequented by Kent Street resident and Red Sox southpaw Babe Ruth, who would drop by to play with local youngsters. In 1930, NU bought the field from the YMCA and it has since gone through many changes, the most significant of which are moving the baseball diamond, adding turf in 1972 and resurfacing the field with AstroPlay in 2002.
The field is also the home of Huskies football and soccer and it is used by Brookline High School and by various Brookline summer leagues. The park has gone by various names during its history. In the period of YMCA ownership, it was referred to as Huntington Field (for the Y’s Huntington Prep School, not the avenue). During its first 30 years under NU, it was first known as the Kent Street Field, and later as the Northeastern University Field. The baseball field became known as Friedman Diamond in 1988.
Friedman Diamond Capacity: 3000
