The Dell Diamond, Round Rock, TX
N 30° 31.617 W 097° 37.861
14R E 631338 N 3377975
Home of the Round Rock Express of the Pacific Coast League.
Waymark Code: WM14B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/08/2005
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The Express and their stadium was a vision of the pitching great, Nolan Ryan, since 1998. The team started play in 2000 when he bought the club and moved it from Jackson, Miss. It started out as a "double-A" club, then switched to AAA for the 2005 season as a Houston Astro's AAA "farm club". The AA Express was moved to Corpus Christi, Texas and became the "Hooks". On 9/16/2010, the Express left the Astros organization and became a AAA affiliate of the Texas Rangers through the 2014 season.
The original stadium cost $20 million to build with an original seating capacity of 8,688 fixed seats, with room for almost 3,000 additional fans on the outfield grass berm area. Included in the reserve seating area are 75 seats in the handicap areas located throughout the ballpark and an upper level of luxury boxes.
Some in-the-park amenities include a volleyball court, swimmming pool with hot tub, rock-climbing wall, meeting/banquet center, playscapes, and a basketball/sport court.
In 2001 a new restaurant was added to the stadium which overlooks right field and covered seating with ceiling fans located throughout to keep fans cool and closed-circuit TV so you won't miss any on-field action.
The scoreboard is a full-color LED video screen measuring 16-feet high by 21-feet wide with full graphics and video capability. The entire scoreboard structure that houses the screen measures 37-feet high by 56-feet wide.
Fans seated on the first row behind home plate are actually closer to home plate than the pitchers mound. The mound to home plate measurement is 60-feet, 6-inches with the backstop just 55 feet behind home plate. Some fans seated down either the first or third base line are less than 50 feet from the first and third-base line.
In 2004 they added "The Home Run Porch" beyond left field. This added 700 chairback seats and six luxury suites, including old-fashioned rocking chairs for that "out on the porch" feeling.
A secondary stadium entrance was added for easier access from the east side parking area a couple of years later, more improvements have been made since, and who knows what else the future holds.
Home Team: Round Rock Express
Capacity: 13000
Mascot: The Stadium is "The Dell Diamond" and the Team Mascot is "Spike"
Team website: [Web Link]
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