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Christensen Stadium is a
stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
in
Midland, Texas Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County. At the 2020 census, Midland's population was 132,524. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan ...
. It has been used for baseball and was home of the Midland RockHounds until they moved to Momentum Bank Ballpark in 2002. The ballpark has a capacity of 5,000 people and opened in 1952. It was previously known as Angels Stadium and Cubs Stadium when the park hosted AA teams for those franchises. Today Christensen Stadium is used for amateur games at the college and high school levels. The stadium has occasionally been used for concerts, the late Tejano singer Selena performed in the stadium in 1994 (then called Angels Stadium) for a charity event and
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performed in the stadium in 2010 in support of their 2009 album '' God & Guns''.


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Minor league baseball venues Baseball venues in Texas Sports in Midland, Texas Sports venues completed in 1952 1952 establishments in Texas {{Texas-baseball-venue-stub