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Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium (informally Wolff Stadium) is a
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in
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,
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, United States. It is primarily used for
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, and is the home field of the
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Minor League Baseball team of the
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. The
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baseball team also plays some home games at the stadium. The stadium is named for Bexar County Judge
Nelson Wolff Nelson William Wolff (born October 27, 1940) is a retired American judge and Democratic politician from San Antonio, Texas. He represented Bexar County in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973 and the Texas Senate from 1973 to 197 ...
, who is a former Texas legislator and San Antonio councilman and mayor. The Wolff is located about to the west of
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. It was opened on April 18, 1994, (as the San Antonio Municipal Stadium) and has 6,200 fixed seats and a grass berm in left field that can seat about 3,000. The stadium features 14 luxury suites, a 500-person picnic area down the right field line, and an all-you-can-eat-and-drink fiesta deck that can be rented for groups of 25 to 200 people. The dimensions (from home plate to the outfield wall) are: to left field, to center field, and to right field.


Features

Viewing the stadium from the outside entrance (behind home plate) there are two large brick bell towers, in keeping with a
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theme, and echoing an architectural feature of the old
Mission Stadium Mission Stadium was a multi-use stadium in San Antonio, Texas, USA. It was opened in 1947 as the stadium of the San Antonio Missions of the Texas League. Its final season was in 1964; V. J. Keefe Memorial Stadium V. J. Keefe Memorial Stadium wa ...
. Shaded seating in the stadium can be found in the Infield Reserved section 200–208 in the back 6 rows. There are no poles to impede views as seen in some older minor league parks. A concourse wraps around the playing field and provides spectators varied views of the game and stadium. The section behind home plate has individual seats; the left and right field seating areas, however, are entirely made up of bleachers. Planes can often be seen flying into and out of
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behind the outfield wall. The Missions regularly have "Military Night", inviting recently graduated troops to Friday night games.


Notable events

On July 7, 1997, the ballpark hosted the
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in which a team of
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-affiliated All-Stars defeated a team of
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-affiliated All-Stars, 4–0, before 7,114 people in attendance. Wolff Stadium hosted the 2011 Texas League All-Star Game. The third annual Mala Luna Music Festival was held from October 27–28, 2018, in the parking lot outside of the stadium. In April 2021, the stadium was announced as the site for two
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exhibition games, between
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and the
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.


Stadium upgrades

Following the 2006 season, the City of San Antonio approved a revised lease of Wolff Stadium. The San Antonio Missions took control of the stadium with plans to invest $1.2 million to improving the concession areas, create a "fiesta deck" in left field, improve the sound system, replace the scoreboard in right field with an LED one, and repaint. In addition, the city invested $300,000 for new lighting. The lease called for the Missions to spend 10 years in the stadium, with three additional options of five years each.


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External links


San Antonio Missions: The Wolff
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