Kendrick Family Ballpark
Wagener Field at Kendrick Family Ballpark is a baseball stadium in Granville, West Virginia. The stadium, which opened April 10, 2015, is the home of the West Virginia Mountaineers baseball team of West Virginia University, a member of the Big 12 Conference, and the West Virginia Black Bears, a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League.
Construction
Plans were announced to build a new stadium for the West Virginia Mountaineers baseball team in 2013. Ground was broken for the new ballpark at University Town Centre, an off-campus shopping and entertainment complex in Granville, adjacent to WVU's home city of Morgantown, on October 17, 2013. The ballpark has 2,500 fixed seats with additional hillside and club seating, a fan amenity deck, and a park that is open year-round. The field has a synthetic surface, other than the clay pitcher's mound.In August 2014, the Jamestown Jammers of the Class A Short Season New York–Penn League, a Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball, announced that they would move to West Virginia, taking the name "West Virginia Black Bears", and use Monongalia County Ballpark as their home stadium. The Black Bears were affiliated with the Pirates from their inception until MLB's reorganization of the minors after the 2020 season. They then became a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League.
As a result of inclement weather in February 2015, the scheduled opening of the stadium was pushed back to April 10, 2015.
Name change
In 2024, West Virginia University officially renamed its baseball stadium Kendrick Family Ballpark at the Monongalia County Baseball Complex in honor of alumnus and Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick, following a major gift from the Kendrick family. The donation supports facility upgrades, most notably the construction of a new 8,200-square-foot indoor pitching and hitting facility, which opened in March 2025. The facility will feature two regulation-size pitching lanes, two full-size batting cages, a soft toss area, and state-of-the-art Trackman technology for performance analytics.Attendance
Top 30 single-game attendance at Kendrick Family Ballpark
Source:| Rank | Attendance | Date | Game Result | Notes |
| 1 | 4,629 | April 2, 2025 | #25 West Virginia 11 Pitt 1 | Largest Regular Season Game at Kendrick Family Ballpark. |
| 2 | 4,614 | April 16, 2024 | #22 West Virginia 6 Pitt 3 | |
| 3 | 4,387 | May 6, 2023 | #12 West Virginia 3 [2023 2023 Oklahoma Sooners baseball team|Oklahoma Sooners baseball team|Oklahoma] 6 | Largest Big 12 Conference Regular Season Game at Kendrick Family Ballpark. |
| 4 | 4,355 | May 31, 2019 | #13 West Virginia 6 Fordham 2 | NCAA Morgantown Regional |
| 5 | 4,289 | April 18, 2025 | #24 West Virginia 6 [2025 2025 Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team|Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team|Cincinnati] 4 | |
| 6 | 4,258 | June 1, 2019 | #13 West Virginia 0 Duke 4 | NCAA Morgantown Regional |
| 7 | 4,223 | April 27, 2024 | West Virginia 5 Baylor 2 | |
| 8 | 4,084 | May 16, 2025 | #16 West Virginia 5 Kansas 8 | |
| 9 | 4,070 | May 3, 2023 | #12 West Virginia 10 Pitt 0 | |
| 10 | 4,062 | May 17, 2025 | West Virginia 0 Kansas 7 | |
| 11 | 3,913 | April 13, 2024 | West Virginia 7
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| 12 | 3,848 | May 3, 2025 | #16 West Virginia 4 Texas Tech 6 | |
| 13 | 3,788 | June 2, 2019 | #13 West Virginia 10
| NCAA Morgantown Regional |
| 14 | 3,776 | April 22, 2025 | #24 West Virginia 10 Cincinnati 5 | |
| 15 | 3,748 | May 8, 2024 | West Virginia 18 Penn State 5 | |
| 16 | 3,716 | May 15, 2024 | #16 West Virginia 0 Kansas 3 | |
| 17 | 3,712 | April 26, 2024 | West Virginia 4 Baylor 3 | |
| 18 | 3,631 | May 11, 2024 | West Virginia 5 Kansas State 2 | |
| 19 | 3,494 | April 13, 2019 | West Virginia 4
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| 20 | 3,487 | April 3, 2019 | West Virginia 7 Pitt 5 | |
| 21 | 3,475 | April 25, 2023 | #18 West Virginia 14 Penn State 2 | |
| 22 | 3,451 | April 14, 2024 | West Virginia 18
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| 23 | 3,441 | April 21, 2023 | West Virginia 5 TCU 4 | |
| 24 | 3,417 | April 5, 2025 | West Virginia 6 Utah 4 | |
| 25 | 3,415 | April 15, 2017 | West Virginia 4
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| 26 | 3,411 | May 5, 2023 | #12 West Virginia 9 Oklahoma 3 | |
| 27 | 3,384 | April 5, 2025 | #16 West Virginia 5 Texas Tech 0 | |
| 28 | 3,370 | April 17, 2025 | #24 West Virginia 3 Cincinnati 2 | |
| 29 | 3,312 | May 14, 2023 | #11 West Virginia 5 #25 Texas Tech 3 | |
| 30 | 3,244 | March 25, 2025 | West Virginia 7 Marshall 0 |
Yearly attendance at Kendrick Family Ballpark
Attendance as of 20252020 season cancelled due to COVID-19
Milestones and facts
West Virginia's records at Kendrick Family Ballpark since 2015.Wagener Field at Kendrick Family Ballpark v. Hawley Field
| Kendrick Family Ballpark | Section | Hawley Field |
| 3,500 | Seating | 1,500 |
| Restrooms | ||
| Concessions | ||
| Suites | N/A | |
| Club Lounge | N/A | |
| Team Area | ||
| Press Area |
Awards
- Best short season Single A ballpark in the country according to BallparkDigest.com in 2015.
- Ballpark of the Year in 2015 according to BaseballParks.com