The Richie Ashburn Field includes a 60-foot baseball diamond and playground. NCAA baseball teams from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and Villanova University are tenants of the field.
Richard "Richie" Ashburn played as an outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1948 to 1959 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. He died two years later and was buried in the Gladwyne Methodist Church Cemetery.