Well, that didn’t take long: Tulsa County Associate Judge Dana Kuehn ended a lawsuit challenging assessments against downtown businesses used to pay for ONEOK Field, the home of the Tulsa Drillers (Class AA; Texas League). True, it was a pretty low threshold to victory: all the city (the defendent in the case, not the Drillers) […]
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Lawsuit over new Tulsa ballpark proceeds
A lawsuit over the funding plan for ONEOK Field, the home of the Tulsa Drillers (Class AA; Texas League), is proceeding, as an opponent of the downtown-business tax is accusing the city of acting in bad faith in putting together the ballpark’s financing deal. The funding plan for the ballpark includes a special assessment fee […]
Drillers Stadium to host baseball in 2011
Drillers Stadium, the former home of the Tulsa Drillers (Class AA; Texas League), will see baseball again in 2011 as a group staging high-school tournaments enters into a one-year lease. RBI Baseball will operate the ballpark as a training facility and a tournament field. The group signed a one-year lease with Expo Square for the […]
Rockies schedule exhibition in Tulsa
The Colorado Rockies will be making an additional stop during Spring Training 2011: the MLB parent has scheduled an exhibition game against farm team Tulsa Drillers (Class AA; Texas League) at ONEOK Field on March 30. It will be the second-ever appearance for the Rockies in Tulsa, but their first at ONEOK Field. Colorado faced […]