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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Designs for a 41,000-seat ballpark for the Washington Nationals were unveiled Tuesday by District of Columbia officials, a glass-and-steel structure clad in pale stone chosen to complement the world famous skyline of the nation's capital.
"The materials that we're using are those that in the monumental Washington, people see all the time," said architect Marshall E. Purnell, who also helped design the Verizon Center and the Washington Convention Center along with HOK Sport.
The ballpark's dimensions are 332 feet down the left-field line, 377 to left-center, 409 to center, 370 to right-center and 335 down the right-field line. The outfield fence will be 8 feet from left to the deepest part of the park, just left of center, and 12 feet high the rest of the way. An out-of-town scoreboard will be built into the right-field fence. The upper deck will extend almost to the fence.
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