The Big 12 Conference will stage its 2021 Baseball Championship at Oklahoma City’s Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, before shifting to the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Field for three years beginning in 2022. The 2022 event will mark the first time in 18 years that the championship is played in Texas. (more…)
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West Virginia ballpark renderings released
These renderings are in the conceptual stage and will certainly be changed if a pro team joins in the effort, but here’s what West Virginia University is thinking when it comes to new ballpark. The renderings, prepared by Kevin Turkall of Designstream LLC in Pittsburgh, shows a fairly basic college ballpark with limited suites and no […]
Work continues on new WVU ballpark
WVU athletic director Oiiver Luck says work continues on a new ballpark for the Mountaineers and potentially a minor-league baseball team. The plan, proposed by Luck and developer Mon-View LLC, calls for the establishment of a tax-increment-financing (TIF) district in Morgantown, with the proceedings funding a new ballpark at the proposed University Town Center complex. Two counties have already signed off […]
WVU: We want new ballpark for us, NY-Penn League team
West Virginia University officials want to compete in the Big 12 with a new Morgantown ballpark — and see sharing it with a short-season NY-Penn League team. The Mountaineers play at Hawley Field, certainly a modest college facility by any measure, and not one likely to attract high-profile athletes to the school. With the move […]