GPS City GuideTucsonHi Corbett Field

Stop 10 of 21 · Tucson audio walking tour

Hi Corbett Field

Gene C. Reid Park · 1937 · Baseball arrives in Tucson

What you'll hear here: about 90 seconds of narration about Hi Corbett Field, and how it fits Gene C. Reid Park, written to be listened to on the spot rather than read at home.

Baseball has been played here since 1937, when Hi Corbett Field was still Randolph Municipal Baseball Park. This ballpark seats approximately 9,500 and has hosted spring training for the Colorado Rockies and the Cleveland Indians; today it is home to the University of Arizona Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference. The first teams played here in 1937, when the ground was known as Randolph Municipal Baseball Park.

In 1951 it was renamed for Hiram "Hi" Stevens Corbett (1886–1967), an Arizona state senator who helped bring spring training to Tucson — notably by convincing Bill Veeck to bring the Cleveland Indians here in 1947. Veeck owned a ranch in Tucson, and he and players sometimes rode his horses after games; he said he moved camp from Florida to Arizona to avoid Florida's Jim Crow laws. The park was remodeled in 1972 and renovated in 1992, 1997, 1999, and 2012.

Hi Corbett sits inside a larger city park complex — Gene C. Reid Park and Randolph Park — which also includes the Reid Park Zoo and lies between Broadway Boulevard and 22nd Street. Notice Broadway Boulevard, 22nd Street, and the adjacent Reid Park Zoo framing this ballpark.

Where it is

Coordinates
32.21333, -110.91917
Area
Gene C. Reid Park
Era
1937 · Baseball arrives in Tucson
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