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ONEOK Field

ONEOK Field
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Location 201 North Elgin Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74120
Coordinates 36°9′35″N 95°59′17″W / 36.15972°N 95.98806°W / 36.15972; -95.98806Coordinates: 36°9′35″N 95°59′17″W / 36.15972°N 95.98806°W / 36.15972; -95.98806
Owner Tulsa Stadium Trust
Operator Tulsa Drillers, Inc.
Capacity 7,833
Field size Left field – 330 feet (101 m)
Left-center – 381 feet (116 m)
Center field – 400 feet (122 m)
Right-center – 371 feet (113 m)
Right field – 307 feet (94 m)
Surface TifSport Bermuda grass
Construction
Broke ground December 19, 2008
Opened April 8, 2010
Construction cost $39.2 million
($43.1 million in 2017 dollars)
Architect Populous
Project manager Stonebridge Group, LLC.
Structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti
Services engineer Faith Technologies, Inc.
General contractor Manhattan Construction Company
Tenants
Tulsa Drillers (TL) (2010–present)
Tulsa Roughnecks (USL) (2015–present)

ONEOK Field (/ˈwʌnk/ WUN-ohk) is a baseball park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Located in the historic Greenwood district adjacent to downtown Tulsa, it is the home of the Tulsa Drillers of the AA Texas League. The stadium is named for ONEOK, a natural gas utility.

ONEOK Field has also been the home of the Tulsa Roughnecks FC of the United Soccer League since 2015.

The Drillers, who then played at Drillers Stadium on the Tulsa County Fairgrounds, began looking for a replacement ballpark in about 1998; at one point they signed a non-binding letter of intent to move to the Tulsa suburb of Jenks, before efforts by then-Tulsa mayor Kathy Taylor and others led to the Drillers deciding to proceed with a downtown stadium. The Drillers announced the move on June 26, 2008. The future of the stadium was for a time threatened by the financial collapse of its largest donor, SemGroup. However, groundbreaking for the new ballpark went forward on December 19, 2008. On January 12, 2009, ONEOK, Inc. and the Oneok Foundation announced that they would pay $5 million USD to obtain the 20-year naming rights for the new baseball park.


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