It is home to the Marist Red Foxes baseball team of the NCAA Division I Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).

[1] The field's namesake is James J. McCann, a Poughkeepsie native and supporter of Marist athletics.

It hosted its first game on March 29, 1992, an 8–4 Marist win over Fairleigh Dickinson.

[1] In 2005, the facility hosted the Empire State Games baseball tournament.

The field itself is a natural turf mixture of bluegrass, rye, and fescue.