Hurricane Alley, a water park, sits adjacent to the ballpark and a gate in right field connects the two attractions. A waterslide at Hurricane Alley towers over the right field berm and features a sign at the top announcing the distance from home plate to the slide. A baseball themed water attraction sits between the ballpark and the water park along the lower concourse. Whataburger Field, of course, features a Whataburger restaurant as one of the concession stand options.
Corpus Christi's Harbor Bridge looms over the ballpark and provides a signature backdrop to a Hooks game. The outfield fence changes height multiple times as it wraps around the field of play. The scoreboard, behind the left field wall. Search this site.
Whataburger Field. Report abuse. Page details. Page updated. Likewise, Whataburger Field is one of the better ballparks in baseball. That's lofty, but well deserved praise for the home of the Corpus Christi Hooks, where most fans benefit from yet another park perk, as the constant bay breeze mitigates the heat that envelops all ballparks in the region but is pleasantly a non-issue in Texas' largest coastal city.
What a ballpark, indeed. Naming rights: Corpus Christi-founded Whataburger paid an undisclosed sum for 15 years; the name of the ballpark was announced on March 1, Owned by the City of Corpus Christi. Since , they have hosted the four-team Whataburger College Classic.
Has 5, fixed seats, a number which includes those in the 19 suites. Berm capacity is approximately 2, Baseball Pilgrimages Whataburger Field Info. American League. Send this page to a friend. I love it when the architects of a ballpark do three things in creating its exterior look: utilize existing structures in the design; pay homage to the history or architecture of the city; and use light effectively so the park looks good at night.
First, HKS incorporated existing cotton warehouses into the left-field and right-field areas. Second, since this was an area where the cotton trade ruled decades ago, HKS and the Hooks did several clever things.
For one thing, there is a season-ticket-holder lounge in the park called The Cotton Club. For another, the exterior of the main seating bowl alternates bricks and a material that looks a great deal like the cotton warehouses that once stood here — and still do beyond left field. And best of all, the main entryway is superb, in that the high roof and distinctive columns are reminescent of the supports that held up the roofs of those warehouses.
Third, wall-washing lights make the entryway even more striking at night. So there is no denying the fact that a great deal of cotton passed through these grounds. The warehouses, some of which housed huge cotton presses, are a very noteworthy feature of Whataburger Field. This covered area is named after area native Brooks Kieschnick who pitched for the Hooks in the first game ever played in Whataburger Field!
Even better, on the left field side, two structures from the s were left standing. These housed massive presses that were used to compress the cotton into large bails for shipping. While the presses are no longer operational, the large gears and supports are still there. Nice touch! A concession stand and picnic tables sit under these structures.
This is site planning at its best. This takes you up to the level of the main concourse, which is just behind the last row of the main seating bowl. This concourse is one significant way that HKS improved upon the design of the Dell Diamond it designed that stadium, too. In Round Rock, the concourse just behind the seats is way too narrow.
In Corpus Christi, though, this concourse is much more spacious — even though there are far fewer rows in the grandstands at Whataburger Field. Speaking of the seating bowl, there are no bleachers.
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