Charles H. Braun Stadium is a
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 ...
venue in
Evansville, Indiana, US. It is home to the
Evansville Purple Aces baseball
The Evansville Purple Aces baseball team represents the University of Evansville, which is located in Evansville, Indiana. The Purple Aces are an NCAA Division I college baseball program that competes in the Missouri Valley Conference. They bega ...
team of the
Division I Missouri Valley Conference.
The stadium's capacity is 1,200 spectators,
much of which consists of chair-backed seating.
The venue is named for Charles H. Braun, an Evansville businessman who died in 1998. Braun's sons, Alan and Charles, Jr., are both involved in the University, Alan as trustee and Charles, Jr. as a former
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
coach.
Braun Stadium features the Marv and Edie Bates
press box. Marv Bates was a broadcaster of Evansville sports. Both he and his wife supported Aces athletics.
Prior to Braun Stadium's opening in 1999, Evansville played at
Bosse Field
Bosse Field is a baseball stadium located in Evansville, Indiana. Opened in 1915, it was the first municipally owned sports stadium in the United States and is the third-oldest ballpark still in regular use for professional baseball, surpassed o ...
from 1985 to 1998.
Bosse Field Through UE Eyes: Purple Aces Baseball
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See also
* List of NCAA Division I baseball venues
This is a list of stadiums that currently serve as the home venue for National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I college baseball teams. Conference affiliations reflect those in the coming 2023 NCAA baseball season. ...
References
{{Indiana NCAA Division I college baseball venue navbox
College baseball venues in the United States
Baseball venues in Indiana
Evansville Purple Aces baseball