Saturday afternoon UIL 6A district contest that saw the Conroe Oak Ridge War Eagles come away with a 5-3 road win over the host New Caney Eagles, the alma mater of alum and former Major Leaguer Adam Dunn. The field at the old school had been named after Dunn back in 2002 and the new facility opened up this spring at the corner of Highway 99 and Interstate 59.

Friday night UIL 5A district contest against Pasadena High School and the Wildcats (Splendora) held off a seventh-inning challenge to hold on for a 3-2 win.

Memorial is the second high school in Tomball ISD. This was a district matchup with Magnolia and Tomball Memorial lost 10-3.

Watched a tournament contest at Klein Oak High School's field between Montgomery Lake Creek defeated Waller, 10-0, in a five-inning, run-rule win. The Panthers' home field is named after their legendary coach who logged 776 career victories and was inducted into the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Saw the last game of a five-site tournament where Mont Belvieu Barbers Hill, the home team Eagles, hosted the Pearland Oilers and rolled out a three-hit, 3-0 shutout in the 3 p.m. matinee contest.

Saw Kingwood Covenant Preparatory Academy defeat Bryan Allen Academy, 17-7, in a TAPPS Division V, District 6 contest where Covenant Prep was the home team. It was my first game of 2025. The field - one of the three (the other two are used for T-ball and youth baseball) - is in the back of a church that I was a member of when the church - and fields - was (were) originally built (since sold to another congregation).

Career ballpark, stadium or field #170 came on Saturday, May 25, 2024 as the Chester Yellowjackets came from behind to defeat the Neches Tigers, 3-1, with three runs in the top of the seventh inning in the game played at Rusk ISD Baseball Field.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #169 came on Friday, May 24, 2024 in Crosby, Texas as the Cy-Fair Bobcats came from behind to score three runs in the top of the sixth inning to give them a 6-5 UIL 6A regional semifinal series sweep over the Clear Springs Chargers in game two.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #168 came on Thursday, May 23, 2024 in Madisonville, Texas as the Kerens Bobcats defeated the Shelbyville Dragons, 1-0, in game one of the UIL 2A regional semifinal series. Saw the first five and half scoreless innings of this contest before it went into a lightning delay. I did not stay. Kerens scored a run in the bottom of the seventh for the win.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #167 came on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 as the Orangefield Bobcats defeated the Rockdale Tigers, 4-1, in the first game of a best-of-three UIL 3A regional semifinal series at Cypress Woods High School in Cypress.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #166 came on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 as the Centerville Tigers defeated the Garrison Bulldogs, 5-1, in the first of a three-game series in the UIL 2A regional quarterfinals. It was the first game of a doubleheader.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #165 came on Friday, May 10, 2024 as the Shiner St. Paul Catholic Cardinals avenged the earlier loss in the day of their female classmates in the TAPPS Division IV softball semifinals by defeating Hallettsville Sacred Heart, 5-1, in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial School Division V semifinals at Clay Gould Ballpark, the home of the University of Texas at Arlington Mavericks.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #164 came on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 as the Beaumont Kelly Bulldogs, with its head coach, former MLBer Jason Tyner, defeated the Houston Lutheran South Academy Pioneers, 8-2, as they advance to defend their Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) Division II title. Victor Coronado hit two solo home runs for Lutheran South, while the Bulldogs scored four runs in both the second and the fourth innings for the win.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #163 came on Saturday, May 4, 2024 as League City Clear Springs defeated Houston Strake Jesuit, 6-3, to advance in the UIL 6A state baseball playoffs, winning the series two games to one. The neutral site game was played at Herrington Field in Baytown on the campus of Lee High School.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #162 came on Thursday, May 2, 2024 as the Conroe Oak Ridge War Eagles won the second of a best-of-three playoff series in the UIL 6A baseball state playoffs as they shutout the Spring Lions - my alma mater, 4-0, in a home contest that had to be moved from Oak Ridge to Klein due to heavy rains on Thursday morning in far north greater Houston. Spring more than handed the game to an otherwise talented team by commiting four errors in the field.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #161 came on Saturday, April 13, 2024 as the Tomball Cougars traveled to Magnolia to defeat the Bulldogs, 14-3, in a game shortened to five innings per the mercy rule. One of the larger high school fields have seen this year. 320 down the lines, 350 to the alleys and 380 to center field.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #160 came on Thursday, April 11, 2024 as the Conroe Covenant Christian Cougars played host to the Rams of Bryan Allen Academy in a TAPPS Division V, District 7 contest. Covenant Christian won the contest, 10-0, doing so when an error scored the 10th run of the contest in the bottom of the sixth inning to end the game via TAPPS' mercy rule. The Cougars moved to 6-0 in district play, while the Rams fell to 3-4.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #159 came on Friday, April 5, 2024 as the Spring Frassati Catholic High School played host to the Houston Lutheran South Academy Pioneers at the home of Spring-Klein Baseball - the Rothwood Baseball Complex. Lutheran South Academy moved to 21-5 and 8-2 in TAPPS Division II play with a 14-1 win where they added eight runs in the top of the seventh inning.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #158 came on Thursday, April 4, 2024 as the Waco Live Oak Classical School Falcons played host to the Bryan Brazos Christian School Eagles in TAPPS Division IV, District 3 play. The teams had met two days ago with Brazos Christian winning, 15-1, at home. However, the Falcons put up a nine-spot in the bottom of the third inning to go up, 11-2, and then hold on to a 13-9 win. Falcon Park - one of the best you'll ever see at the high school level - opened in mid-February.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #157 came on Monday, April 1, 2024 as the Northside Falcons Homeschool hosted the West Houston Thunder Homeschool baseball program. The Thunder jumped on the board early with six runs in the first inning, but the Falcons pulled ahead after three innings, 7-6. In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Falcons added a run to make it 8-6 after loading the bases, but with two outs the pitcher dropped an high, infield fly. The next batter hit a grand slam, depositing it over the short 300-foot fence in center field.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #156 came on Friday, March 29, 2024 as Angelina College played host to Navarro College in the first game of a doubleheader in Lufkin, Texas. Navarro defeated Angelina, 18-8, in a mercy rule-shortened, 6-inning contest.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #155 came on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 as the Houston Northland Christian School Cougars hosted Division IV district rival Tomball Rosehill Christian. The Cougars defeated the Eagles 10-0 in a five-inning, mercy-rule win. Rosehill dropped its first game in district falling to 4-1 while the Cougars improved to 2-3. The teams square off on Thursday in Tomball.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #154 came on Saturday, March 23, 2024 as the Houston St. Pius X Panthers won a district matchup at home, 5-0, over the Houston St. Thomas Eagles as part of the Shepherd Showdown Series. The two schools are separated by approximately 10 miles off Shepherd Drive on the north side of downtown Houston. They've been rivals since St. Pius X opened up in 1961. It was the second game of the a three-game series. The second game of Saturday's doubleheader followed and the Panthers ended up winning all three games.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #153 came on Friday, March 22, 2024 as the Houston Second Baptist School Eagles played host to the Monsignor Kelly Catholic School from Beaumont. The Bulldogs, the defending TAPPS Division II state champions, defeated Second 5-0 a couple of days ago at home, but traveled to Houston this evening to record a 3-1 win over the Eagles. It completed a district sweep of Second Baptist. Beaumont Kelly is coached by former Texas A&M Aggie and major leaguer Jason Tyner, while Second Baptist School, which had former big leaguer and current Houston Christian University head coach Lance Berkman, is led by former Houston Cougar and minor leaguer Raynor Noble.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #152 came on Friday, March 15, 2024 as the East Texas Baptist University Tigers opened a three-game series at home against the Yellowjackets of Howard Payne University. ETBU is situated in Marshall while Howard Payne is in Brownwood. HPU held a 2-1 lead going into the bottom of the eighth inning when a runner reached on an error and scored to tie it at 2-all before ETBU loaded the bases and got a grand slam - and then one more run for good measure - to secure a 7-2 win.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #151 came on Thursday, March 14, 2024 as Summer Creek High School in the Humble Independent School District hosted its second district game of 2024 against Beaumont West Brook. The Bruins gave the Bulldogs an early 2-0 lead after three innings, posted three runs in the top of the fourth and then made it stand to win on the road, 4-2.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #150 came on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 as Conroe Grand Oaks High School - the Grizzlies - played host to the Cavaliers of The Woodlands College Park High School in a district contest. Grand Oaks gave up a run in the top of the second and College Park's starting pitcher made it stick with a 7-inning shutout to drop the Grizzlies to 9-2.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #149 came on Monday, March 11, 2024 as the Galena Park Yellowjackets defeated the Houston Waltrip Rams 3-0 in a UIL District 19-5A contest at Lee Roy Ashmore Field at Delmar Stadium in Houston. The Yellowjackets put up a three spot in the top of the second inning and made it stick to hand Waltrip its first loss in district. Ashmore was a retired teacher/coach in the Houston Independent School District and spent 38 years at John H. Reagan Senior High School coaching baseball and football. At the time of his retirement in 1978, his baseball teams' record of 519 wins and 214 losses was tops in Texas high school. He was a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, the Greater Houston Baseball Coaches Hall of Honor, the HISD Coaches Hall of Honor, and the Reagan High School Hall of Honor. The baseball field at Delmar Stadium is named after him.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #148 came on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at Memorial Park in Houston involving two private schools teams who are members of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) -- Bryan Allen Academy and Houston St. Francis Episcopal. The Wolves put up five runs in the bottom of the first inning, while holding the Rams scoreless, and then added double-digit numbers in the bottom of the second forcing Allen Academy to bat only in the top of the third due to TAPPS' mercy rule.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #147 came on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at another game involving two Texas private and parochial high schools - the visiting St. Francis Episcopal Wolves and the hosting Houston Second Baptist School - University Model Eagles. These two teams play in different Divisions in TAPPS - SFE in Division IV and SBSUM in Division V. ‘25 Austin Reed threw a 5-inning complete game, no-hit shutout with no walks and 11 strikeouts.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #146 came on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 when I took in a local high school baseball game between two members of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS). The Woodlands John Cooper School played host to Magnolia Legacy Prep Christian Academy and the home Dragons muddled their way through an 11-8 win.

Career ballpark, stadium or field #145 came on Monday, February 26, 2024 in Bellville, Texas at Knight Field where the Bellville Brahmas defeated the Columbus Cardinals, 3-1, in a high school baseball game. Before the game, I was able to visit two gravesites of former Texas MLB players - Red Lynn and Ernie Koy - in Bellville.

Witnessed the Wharton County Junior College Pioneers defeated the Eastern Oklahoma State College Mountaineers in the last game of a three-game opening weekend series that had been moved from Wharton County's Corbett Park because it is a grass field that had been deluged with rain this past week. The Pioneers won 5-2 in a seven-inning contest.

Seeing the Rangers play host to the Cleveland Guardians, this allowed me to see the third ballpark of the Texas Rangers, including Arlington Stadium and the Ballpark in Arlington. This was only my seventh current MLB stadium and 16 MLB overall. And puts me at 143 stadiums total, all the way down to high school parks.

The last year or two, the Austin Weirdos of the Pecos League played in another city-owned park, Parque Zaragoza Neighborhood Park, that is less than two miles away. I had seen Michael Harris' posts on Twitter, as he had been there a week or two before, but nothing prepared me for the sight. I work to promote Texas private and parochial high school athletics and I just couldn't help but wonder if there were high schools in and around Austin that could have helped the league owner out on a decent deal. Michael said he tries to stay positive, but this beats Griggs Park in Alamogordo, New Mexico - another former Pecos League team - as the most challenging park in America to see "professional baseball" at. However, the story on this night wasn't the game itself, it was that the visiting Alpine '06 Cowboys had a player killed in a car accident that morning on the team's journey to Austin. An article on the Eldorado Success newspaper indicated that the broadcaster - who teamed up with the club's assistant general manager - had been driving the radio station's van and had an accident that caused the player, as a passenger, to be killed after striking a mesquite tree some nine miles west of Eldorado on U.S. 190. The assistant GM, who did the broadcast over his phone as the equipment had been destroyed in the accident, had shared with me some details that aren't appropriate to post here.

Saw San Jose State University complete a three-game series at the home field of the University of New Mexico Lobos. SJSU won 14-3 in eight innings of a regularly-scheduled nine-inning contest. (From UNM's website, Santa Ana Star Field has become one of the toughest places for opponents to play in college baseball as The University of New Mexico baseball team is 94-38-1 (.711) since returning to its former location March 24, 2013, after nine seasons at Isotopes Park. For decades the home of UNM baseball was known as Lobo Field, but thanks to a 10-year, $1 million naming rights gift from Tamaya Enterprises, Lobo Field was rechristened Santa Ana Star Field on Dec. 11, 2015.)

Saw most of the game where the Isotopes defeated Salt Lake, 9-6, on the strength of a five-run bottom of the fifth that featured three Isotopes home runs.

Witnessed Wayland Baptist University at Southwestern Assemblies of God University on a Saturday afternoon in the second game of a doubleheader. SAGU won 9-6 when they scored six runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Pitching was just terrible this stadium. Playing surface and all is fine with this facility, but seating and surroundings are just terrible, even for a NAIA program.

Saw Southwestern University, of whom it is the home field of, defeat the University of St. Thomas from Houston 5-2 in a NCAA Division III conference matchup ..... Built in 1978, Rockwell Field has seen many changes to become one of the top NCAA Division III fields in the region. The Field was named in honor of Henry M. Rockwell who graduated from Southwestern in 1922 as a former student-athlete. The most recent addition to Rockwell Field and the baseball program is the new clubhouse built and dedicated in 2013 in honor of long-time legendary head coach Jim Mallon. The building is named for former Southwestern baseball Head Coach the late Jim Mallon who amassed a record of 1,197-601 between 1971 and his retirement in 2004. He ended his coaching career ranked third all-time in wins for both the NCAA and the NAIA.

The home field of Alvin Community College in Alvin, Texas - the hometown of Nolan Ryan, no less - and I saw them win the first game of a doubleheader with the Galveston College Whitecaps in a 3-0, seven-inning contest.

Billy Allgood Field was built in the 1970s after Louisiana College restarted baseball following a brief hiatus and has served as the home of Wildcat baseball since. Since 2000, more than a million dollars in improvements has been done to "The Billy" to upgrade it to modern standards, with most of the money coming through the fundraising efforts of head coach Mike Byrnes. Among those improvements; an outfield wall, new scoreboard with video message center on top, batting cages, perimeter fence around the facility, chair back seats and a covered seating area, press box, new sound system, walkways in front of the dugouts, and brick backstop. The improvements allowed for capacity inside the stadium to be around 550 people all told, 425 of which could find one of the new seats. One of the biggest improvements to Billy Allgood Field came in 2016 when the LCU Baseball Fieldhouse was added to the facility, as well as the installation of a turf infield. The turf infield was made possible by a generous donation in the memory of Allen "Dick" Wall. I saw Louisiana Christian University defeat Texas College, 20-8.

The bleachers of LSU Alexandria's field come from the original Alex Box Stadium at LSU in Baton Rouge, which was the site of four SEC tournaments, 18 NCAA regionals, four NCAA super regionals and one ABCA Hall of Fame tournament. I saw LSU Alexandria allow Briar Cliff University to come from behind to sweep a three-game series with a 7-4 third game victory.

It seems like I saw a Beaumont Golden Gators game here when they played in the Texas League from 1983 to 1986, but I made the ballpark official when I saw the University of Pennsylvania at Lamar University the day after I announced The Woodlands Marathon. The Cardinals won 3-1 to avoid a sweep by Pennsylvania.

Configured in 1997, according to the school's website (Facilities), the Division III's school field is pretty basic. One set of bleachers directly behind home plate, but you can stand along the railing from the dugouts to the foul poles. Saw Nebraska Wesleyan University defeated the University of Dallas, 3-0, on Sunday, February 19, 2023 for it to be the 23rd Texas baseball facility that I've witnessed a college game at.

Sycamore Park is located less than a mile from the Texas Wesleyan campus and houses facilities for the Texas Wesleyan Baseball and Softball programs. The dimensions of the baseball field are: 324 feet down the leftfield line, 387 feet to center, 322 feet down the right field line and 365 feet in the power alleys. On this day, I watched the Rams of Texas Wesleyan lose to Baker University of Kansas, 6-2.

The home of the Alpine '06 Cowboys, I saw them play the Weimar Hormigas in a typical Pecos League slugfest where Alpine won 22-14. I had been in this ballpark on May 25, 2019 when I ran the Alpine Cowboys Home Run 10K that finished on the field, but didn't see a game until this contest in 2022! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokernot_Field

After having worked in Jackson for about 18 months shortly after Trustmark Park opened in 2005, I had never been able to find the opportunity to get there until this game which the Birmingham Barons won 4-3 in 12 innings over the Mississippi Braves. (Note: I didn't see the end of it.)

Saw the Birmingham Barons host the Pensacola Blue Wahoos and spring for five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning for an 5-1 win.

The home park of the Biloxi Shuckers in the Southern League, who moved to Mississippi from Huntsville, Alabama after the 2014 season when they were the stars. Biloxi beat Montgomery 6-5 in 11 innings. Had the chance to see Arlington Pantego Christian Academy alum Hill Alexander play left field for the Biscuits.

Langham Creek High School, Houston, TX, which hosted the UIL 5A regional semifinal between Houston Milby and Montgomery Lake Creek.

The $24 million stadium opened in February 2012 transforming Olsen Field, which opened in 1978, into a first-class facility that showcases the long-standing tradition of the A&M athletics program. Saw Texas A&M defeat Mississippi State, 8-2.

Veterans Memorial Park was built in 1948 and was the first lighted baseball field between San Antonio and Houston. Despite its age, it remains a state of the art stadium. It is a beautiful park and along with being the home of the Weimar Wildcats, it also has hosted numerous playoff games, Babe Ruth World Series tournaments, the last of which was held in 2012. Weimar as a city has a great tradition with baseball and the Wildcats have won five state titles and made six state tournament appearances. (Courtesy of Victoria Advocate) Saw San Antonio Central Catholic defeat Houston St. Pius X 11-1 in the second game of a best-of-three Series in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) Division I playoffs.

League City Bay Area Christian defeated Cypress Christian School, 7-5, in the TAPPS Regional Round.

Witnessed Houston Northland Christian defeat Pasadena First Baptist Christian Academy 7-0 to win the TAPPS Division III regional round and advance to the state tournament next week at the University of Texas-Arlington.

Saw Texas Southern University, at their home field, defeat the Alcorn State University Braves, 13-3. Both teams play in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Home park of McLennan Community College, who defeated Cisco College, 5-0 in seven innings - the first game of a doubleheader.

Named for the late Red Murff, a former New York Mets scout who signed Nolan Ryan to his first professional baseball contract. Murff was instrumental in signing players to make up the roster for the first collegiate baseball team at UMHB. He continued his involvement with UMHB baseball for several years, providing players for the team and holding professional baseball tryout camps on the UMHB campus. UMHB defeated Howard Payne University on Friday, April 29, 8-2.

Cited as being "one of the nicest high school ballparks in America" it has witnessed major league and semi-professional league action. Blinn College defeated Galveston College, 9-8, on Thursday, April 28, 2022.

Wharton County Junior College defeated Alvin Community College, 13-3, in five innings on Saturday, April 9, 2022. The field, the scoreboard and the bleachers with backed seating were all made possible thanks to a $1.7 million donation from Houston resident Duncan Corbett. Corbett a longtime commercial salesman from Houston by way of Corpus Christi isn’t from the area. However, Corbett’s parents are from Egypt and his family farm is in Glen Flora and he spends a lot of time in the area.

Completed in the winter of 2010, Wilder Park is the home facility for West Texas A&M University, located in Canyon, Texas. Saw the Buffaloes defeat Lubbock Christian University, 12-4, on a Sunday afternoon.

The home field of Tomball Concordia Lutheran High School was renamed to Rick Lynch Field on Thursday, March 24, 2022 to honor the passing of its longtime head baseball coach (2011-2021), who passed away unexpectedly at the age of 64.

During the pandemic, with the minor league season completely shutdown, the Texas Collegiate League - a summer collegiate baseball league - fielded its usual teams in addition to minor league teams at Tulsa, San Antonio and Amarillo to give the college kids, who had their spring season interrupted, a place and an opportunity to play during the summer of 2020. So I saw the Tulsa Drillers against the Amarillo Sod Squad. Actually, Amarillo fielded two teams in the league that season.

Saw San Jacinto College defeat Blinn College, 3-1, on a Thursday evening less than two weeks before the world shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Saw Loyola University (Louisiana) shutout the Celts of the University of St. Thomas, 13-0. It was the Celts debut season, where they went 7-17 before the pandemic ended the year.

Game of record: February 13, 2015; Houston 9, Minnesota 1. Don Sanders Field at Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park holds a seating capacity of 3,500 fans, but can accommodate up to 5,000 fans with a pair of grass berm areas located along the outfield lines.

Roadrunner Field has been the home of the University of Texas-San Antonio baseball team since it opened in 1993. The facility can seat 800 fans and includes a fan-friendly berm down the first-base line. March 28, 2014 UT-San Antonio 3, Louisiana Tech 2

Saw the Vancouver Canadians play a Pacific Coast League - AAA game in 1991 on my honeymoon.

1979 while living in Russellville, Arkansas