Allie P. Reynolds Stadium is a
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Stillwater, OklahomaStillwater is a city in and the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 39,065 at the 2000 census. Founded December 12, 1884 it was the first settlement in the Unassigned Lands....
. It is the home field of the
Oklahoma State UniversityOklahoma State University–Stillwater, located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA, is a land-grant, sun-grant, coeducational public research university founded in 1890 under the Morrill Act...
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teams. It is named after former OSU and
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Allie ReynoldsAllie Pierce Reynolds was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.He was born in Bethany, Oklahoma, the son of a strict preacher. His nickname of the Superchief came because he was one quarter Creek Indian . He was prone to diabetes...
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Allie P. Reynolds Stadium has a listed capacity of 3,281 people and was opened April 4, 1981 against then-
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. The stadium was officially dedicated on April 24, 1982 in a ceremony attended by Allie Reynolds and Yankee legend
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In addition to the dominating Cowboy baseball teams of the 1980s, the ballpark has hosted nine NCAA Regional tournaments in its history.
Allie P. Reynolds Stadium is a
baseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond...
stadiumA modern stadium is a place, or venue, for outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.-History of the stadium:The word originates from the Greek word...
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Stillwater, OklahomaStillwater is a city in and the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 39,065 at the 2000 census. Founded December 12, 1884 it was the first settlement in the Unassigned Lands....
. It is the home field of the
Oklahoma State UniversityOklahoma State University–Stillwater, located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA, is a land-grant, sun-grant, coeducational public research university founded in 1890 under the Morrill Act...
CowboysOklahoma State Cowboys are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma State University. Their mascot is a cowboy named Pistol Pete. Oklahoma State participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big 12 Conference's South Division. The university's current athletic director is Mike Holder...
college baseballCollege baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. Compared to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a less significant contribution to cultivating professional players, as the minor leagues primarily...
teams. It is named after former OSU and
New York YankeesThe New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of Major League Baseball's American League East Division...
baseball great,
Allie ReynoldsAllie Pierce Reynolds was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.He was born in Bethany, Oklahoma, the son of a strict preacher. His nickname of the Superchief came because he was one quarter Creek Indian . He was prone to diabetes...
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History
Allie P. Reynolds Stadium has a listed capacity of 3,281 people and was opened April 4, 1981 against then-
Big 8The Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored American football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri,...
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MissouriThe Missouri Tigers athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of the University of Missouri, located in Columbia, Missouri, United States. The name comes from a band armed guards called the Missouri Tigers who, in 1864, protected Columbia from plundering Union squads as...
. The stadium was officially dedicated on April 24, 1982 in a ceremony attended by Allie Reynolds and Yankee legend
Mickey MantleMickey Charles Mantle was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974....
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In addition to the dominating Cowboy baseball teams of the 1980s, the ballpark has hosted nine NCAA Regional tournaments in its history. The stadium's $200,000 lighting system, installed in 1981, was instrumental in attracting the Regionals to Stillwater. Major renovations, funded primarily by the private contributions to the Reynolds Stadium Development Fund, through the years have helped keep the stadium up-to-date. The biggest changes to the stadium have been the expanded seating, new perimeter fences, and new dressing rooms in 1993. A new clubhouse was built in June 2005 along the third base dugout. The facility cost approximately $700,000 and includes a modern locker room, lounge, and media equipment.
Other renovations to Reynolds Stadium include a re-landscaping of the playing surface in 1992, a new scoreboard in 1995, a padded fence in 1997, a new indoor hitting facility in 2001, a new sound system in 2002, and another new scoreboard in 2004. Major upgrades to the bullpen areas, warning tracks, and playing surface were made in the fall of 2005.
Designs from Oklahoma State's new campus master plan show that Allie P. Reynolds will be replaced in upcoming years by a new, state-of-the-art ballpark with a larger
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aimed at attracting Super-Regional round games
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Year-By-Year Home Record
- 1981—11-6
- 1982—30- 3
- 1983—33-6
- 1984—39-4
- 1985—27-5
- 1986—35-2
- 1987—33-4
- 1988—36-3
- 1989—24-7
- 1990—26- 4
- 1991—22-7
- 1992—25-4
- 1993—21-5
- 1994—28-5
- 1995—17-6
- 1996—23-3
- 1997—25-4
- 1998—25- 6
- 1999—21-3
- 2000—26-6
- 2001—22-6
- 2002—24-9
- 2003—19-6
- 2004—19-9
- 2005—25-8
- 2006—28-4
Total: 26 years—674-135 (.833)
Trivia
- First Game - April 4, 1981 (Missouri 8, OSU 6)
- Dedicated - April 24, 1982
- First Win - April 5, 1981 (OSU 7, Missouri 4)
- Longest Winning Streak - 54 games (1986 & 1987)
- Longest Losing Streak - 6 games (2007)
- Largest Average Attendance - 3,492 (1985)
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