Baylor Ballpark is the
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
stadium at
Baylor University
Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...
in
Waco, Texas
Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the ...
. The stadium was built on the site of Ferrell Field, Baylor's home from 1977 to 1998, by mid-February in 1999. The Bears have hosted three
NCAA
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regional and two super regional tournaments at Baylor Ballpark, including one of each in their
College World Series
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is an annual baseball tournament held in June in Omaha, Nebraska. The MCWS is the culmination of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Divisi ...
season of 2005.
Attendance
Baylor drew 100,000 fans in a season for the first time in 2005 en route to the College World Series. The Bears ranked in the nation's top 20 in attendance in the first nine full seasons they played at Baylor Ballpark. The stadium was voted as the third best collegiate baseball stadium in a 2003 poll conducted by ''
Baseball America
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''.
In 2019, the Bears ranked 33rd among
Division I baseball programs in attendance, averaging 1,981 per home game.
- 1999 total reflects only games at Baylor Ballpark and does not include the 4 home games played at McLennan CC in Waco. Baylor played its 1999 home schedule at Baylor Ballpark despite ongoing construction.
Climate
See also
*
List of NCAA Division I baseball venues
References
External links
Baylor Ballpark
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