Baseball & Softball Facility Guide

Where2Play

Over the past 17 years as publisher of Sports Planning Guide, I’ve tracked the venues, the operators and the economic impact driving communities to invest heavily in the space. I also coach a travel softball team, which means I get to see this industry from between the foul poles.

The tournament industry is at an inflection point. Private equity has arrived in force and national platforms are scaling aggressively. At the same time, independent operators remain the backbone of where most families actually play. Our research estimates that the U.S. hosts somewhere between 35,000 and 45,000 organized travel baseball and softball tournaments annually, and the significant majority of those events are run by local and regional operators.

The infrastructure side of the industry is equally active. Sports Planning Guide tracked 154 new sports tourism facility announcements in the past year, 37 of which include baseball or softball fields.

This guide is designed to help you get to work. Inside, you will find a directory of 160 baseball and softball fields and facilities, along with profiles of nearly 60 tournament companies. For a deeper look at these trends, I invite you to read our full industry analysis, The Diamond Divide.

The field is chalked. Let’s play ball.

Jeff Gayduk Publisher, Sports Planning Guide