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in 1915 as a home for the Boston Braves National League
baseball team, when the team moved to Milwaukee the
stadium was purchased by Boston University. In
1955 renovated the facility two years later, renaming it
for William E. Nickerson, a member of BU's Board of
Trustees. The
home of the Boston Patriots during their first four
years, the site was seen as inadequate then let alone by
the time the USFL and the Boston Breakers came
along. Boston University's modifications to the
facility had reduced seating capacity to just over
20,000, and Breakers partners George Matthews and Randy
Vataha's decision to sell the team after the 1983 season
was largely based in their inability to secure use of a
bigger, better facility for home games.
Today the facility is even smaller, as further
modifications have reduced seating capacity to just over
9,000.
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NICKERSON
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Boston,
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