TCU Diamond

TCU Diamond
Construction
Full name	TCU Diamond
Location	Fort Worth, Texas
Owner	Texas Christian University
Capacity	1,500
Field size	330 LF 395 CF 320 RF
Surface	Grass
Opened	1962
Closed	2002
Demolished	2003
Tenants
TCU Horned Frogs baseball 1962–2002 (Southwest Conference 1962–1996) (Western Athletic Conference 1997–2001) (Conference USA 2002)

TCU Diamond was a ballpark located on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, and was the home of the TCU Horned Frogs baseball program for four decades.^[1] The ballpark hosted 1,480 TCU baseball games over 41 years; in the time the Horned Frogs posted an overall 867–605–8 home record.^[2] The Horned Frogs won Southwest Conference regular season championships in 1963 (co-champions with the Texas), 1966 (co-champions with Baylor, Texas and Texas A&M), 1967 (co-champions Texas), 1972 (co-champions with Texas), and 1994 while calling the TCU Diamond home. During the TCU Diamond era, the Horned Frogs played in the Southwest Conference (SWC) (1962–1996), Western Athletic Conference (WAC) (1997–2001), and Conference USA (CUSA) (2002). After the opening of Lupton Stadium, the Frogs would go on to achieve a decade of unprecedented success under head coach Jim Schlossnagle in CUSA (2003–2005), the Mountain West Conference (MWC) (2006–2012), and the Big 12 Conference (Big 12) (2013–). In the first 13 years after the closing of the TCU Diamond, TCU baseball won 10 CUSA, MWC and Big 12 regular season conference championships, 7 CUSA, MWC and Big 12 conference tournament championships, appeared in 11 NCAA Tournaments, won 5 NCAA Tournament Regional championships, and advanced to the program's first 3 College World Series, making the CWS semifinal round in two of those three trips.

The venue held a capacity of 1,500^[3] and sat adjacent to Amon G. Carter Stadium and Schollmaier Arena. In 2003, the TCU Diamond was razed with the opening of TCU baseball's new home at Lupton Stadium.^[4] The TCU Diamond foul poles were installed at Lupton Stadium and are the only remaining piece of the Diamond on the TCU campus.^[5] The land where the TCU Diamond sat is now the location of the Sam Baugh Indoor Practice Facility (football), Morris Practice Fields (football) and the Bob Lilly Physical Performance Center (all sports).

Sources

"Southwest Conference's Greatest Hits," Neal Farmer, c.1996

References

↑ http://gofrogs.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/020103aaa.html
↑ "Baseball Closes TCU Diamond on Winning Note, Beats UTA 6-3". Texas Christian University Department of Athletics. May 14, 2002. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
↑ http://www.joanna.org/hook-em/teams/tcu_98.html
↑ http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/story/1417920.html
↑ http://gofrogs.cstv.com/facilities/tcu-facil-basebl-stadium.html

TCU Horned Frogs baseball

Venues	TCU Diamond (1962–2002) Lupton Stadium (2003–present)

People	Head coaches Players

Seasons	1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

College World Series appearances in italics

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