Crying Wolff Near the Alamo

Exterior of Wolff Municipal Stadium, Aug-2000.

The sun has already set behind the lighted roof.

Trees, and not much else, surround the outfield.

• Location: Route 90 near Callaghan Road, San Antonio, Texas
• Opened: 1994
• Home team: San Antonio Missions, Texas League (1994-present)
• Capacity: 6,200

Rating: 3 baseballs

The most distinctive feature of the facility is the roof lighting. While most places with roofs don’t light them at all -- or have lights in the roof so fans can see where they’re going -- Wolff has lights mounted below the luxury box level that light up the roof itself and lend the park a distinctive appearance.

It might have been nicer had the outfield berm extended to right field as well, but that’s a small bone to pick. The park was certainly reasonable, with stadium seats for boxes and reserved seating and aluminum benches for general admission behind the reserved seats in all areas, including directly behind the plate.

One bone I could pick during my 2007 trip was that with the park in the middle of nowhere, they can charge what the market will bear for parking. On this trip, it was $5.

I was unable to duplicate the beautiful picture of this ballpark on Gary Jarvis’ Web site, primarily because at the moment the sun set far enough, coaches from each side were being ejected, one arguing a non-balk call, the other arguing a balk call. Of course, one can never duplicate a photograph anyway, so why did I try?