Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium, originally simply Riverfront Stadium, is a 6,200-seat baseball park in Newark, New Jersey, USA, that is currently home to the Rutgers-Newark Scarlet Raiders and NJIT Highlanders college baseball teams. The stadium was built for the Newark Bears, a minor league expansion franchise in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball awarded to the city in 1999, and hosted its first regular season baseball game on July 16, 1999 when the Bears took on the Lehigh Valley Black Diamonds.