One of the many fun parts of baseball’s NCAA Tournament is the ballparks. With top seeds hosting each Regional and Super Regional, you get a wide range of environments, especially in a year when—to take a pertinent example—Indiana State is hosting.
Here’s each ballpark in action this weekend, along with its capacity:
School | Ballpark | Capacity |
Arkansas | Baum–Walker Stadium | 10,737 |
LSU | Alex Box Stadium | 10,326 |
Alabama | Sewell–Thomas Stadium | 8,500 |
South Carolina | Founders Park | 8,242 |
Oklahoma State | O’Brate Stadium | 8,000 |
Florida | Condron Family Ballpark | 7,000 |
Clemson | Doug Kingsmore Stadium | 6,272 |
Coastal Carolina | Spring Brooks Stadium | 6,000 |
Virginia | Davenport Field | 5,359 |
Miami | Mark Light Field | 5,000 |
Kentucky | Kentucky Proud Park | 5,000 |
Auburn | Plainsman Park | 4,096 |
Stanford | Sunken Diamond | 4,000 |
Wake Forest | David F. Couch Ballpark | 3,823 |
Vanderbilt | Hawkins Field | 3,626 |
Indiana State | Bob Warn Field | 2,000 |
The gap between the environments in the Fayetteville and Terre Haute Regionals might not be massive in margin—it’s only 8,737 people, not many against the baseball-watcher’s instinctual context of an MLB stadium—but proportionally, you have ballparks which can hold five times as many people as others. That’s a big swing! Even without that, too: The uniqueness of the environments is special, and as college baseball continues to grow, it’s hopefully one of those character pieces that will stick around.