Riders Field is a 10,216 seat baseball park in Frisco, Texas that is home to the Frisco RoughRiders minor league baseball team. It was built in 2003 as part of a $300 million development project funded jointly by the city and team ownership. The stadium has hosted Texas League All-Star games and consistently ranks among the highest attended teams in its league.
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Riders Field is a 10,216 seat baseball park in Frisco, Texas that is home to the Frisco RoughRiders minor league baseball team. It was built in 2003 as part of a $300 million development project funded jointly by the city and team ownership. The stadium has hosted Texas League All-Star games and consistently ranks among the highest attended teams in its league.
Riders Field is a 10,216 seat baseball park in Frisco, Texas that is home to the Frisco RoughRiders minor league baseball team. It was built in 2003 as part of a $300 million development project funded jointly by the city and team ownership. The stadium has hosted Texas League All-Star games and consistently ranks among the highest attended teams in its league.
Riders Field is a baseball park in Frisco, Texas, United States.
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Frisco RoughRiders, a Double-A team of the Texas League, it opened on April 3, 2003, and can seat 10,216 people. Primarily a venue for Minor League Baseball games, the facility also hosts high school and college baseball tournaments and other public and private events. It has been the site of three Texas League All-Star Games. In his design, park architect David M. Schwarz desired the creation of a village-like "park within a (ball)park". The stadium received the 2003 Texas Construction award for Best Architectural Design. Attendance for RoughRiders games at the stadium has consistently placed first or second in the Texas League and at the Double-A classification since its opening. After having the second-highest attendance in its first two seasons, it had the highest in the league and classification from 2005 to 2019. Development[edit] In 2001, Mandalay Sports Entertainment, owner of the Shreveport SwampDragons Double-A baseball team, members of the Texas League, reached an agreement with Southwest Sports Group to move the team to Frisco, Texas, for the 2003 season.[7] As part of the deal, Southwest Sports Group assumed part-ownership of both the team and the ballpark to be built in Frisco.[8] The project, designed by David M. Schwarz Architectural Services and HKS Sports & Entertainment Group, [5] broke ground on February 6, 2002.[4] The ballpark was conceived as the anchor of a 74-acre (0.30 km2 ) $300 million development project near the intersection of State Highway 121 and the Dallas North Tollway. [8] The project was jointly funded by the city of Frisco and Southwest Sports Group. The city put forth $67 million to build the complex, which was raised through special financing, unconnected to the city tax rate.[8] Naming rights[edit] Local soft-drink manufacturing company Dr Pepper/Seven Up purchased the naming rights to the stadium in January 2003 for ten years with an option for a further five years, naming it Dr Pepper/Seven Up Ballpark.[9] This was shortened to Dr Pepper Ballpark prior to the 2006 season.[10] In August 2017, Dr Pepper Snapple Group declined to renew their expiring naming rights agreement.[11] The RoughRiders began looking for a new naming-rights partner during the 2017 season.[12] With Dr Pepper signage still in place at the park before the 2019 season, an unidentified former team employee told the Dallas Observer that the name stayed the same because the team did not want to spend money replacing the old signs.[12] During that season, a May 23 Dallas News story about Keurig Dr Pepper's growing presence in Frisco and other North Dallas suburbs stated that Dr Pepper was the ballpark's sponsor, but no specific details of a new naming rights agreement were given.[13] As of January 2021, the ballpark continued to bear the soft drink's name.[14] Beginning with the start of the 2021 season, the ballpark is known as Riders Field. [15]