Youth Ball Fields

Tom Bean Youth Sports is embarking on a ambitious project to add three new ball fields and update the existing field along highway 11 to support the growing number youth baseball and softball participants and their families. (Read more below)

Tom Bean Youth Ball Fields Capital Improvement Project

The Tom Bean Youth Sports Board and community members are undertaking a multi-phase field improvement project along highway 11, next to the Tom Bean High School football stadium.

  • Phase One of the project will improve the existing youth field and add an additional field (Field 2), which is slated to be ready for the 2024 baseball/softball season.

  • Phase Two will include Field 3, Field 4, and construct new concessions and fan areas for the ‘25 season.

The projected budget for this capital improvement project is $125K. We welcome your monetary or professional expertise support to make this project a reality. Please fill out the form or click donate to help.

Phase 1 - $62,000

(80% completed)

Update Field 1 and Field 2 for 2024 Season

  • Add backstop, dugouts, and 700’ of fencing to Field 2

  • Update backstop and dugouts to Field 1

  • Build Donor Patio at entrance to Field 1, next to the parking lot

  • Update Fan Area for Field 1

  • Update field lighting

  • Add significant drainage relief between parking lot and Field 1

  • Add boardwalk entrance that will serve as handicap ramp as well as passage through wet areas

  • Add a gravel walkway from parking lot to Field 2

  • Over 80 tons of clean top rock

  • Update bathrooms and concession

Phase 2 - $80,000

Phase 2 will be the eventual completion of the project that will see baseball and softball being played at the same complex.

  • Add 4 major stadium light poles to field two - completed via a donation from CGEG

  • Hang 20 donated stadium lights from 4 light poles - lights are on site via donation

  • bury and hookup complete electric system for stadium lights including electric box and power transformer

  • Fix field one lights and add one lighting scheme (5 lights) to right field light pole

  • Update electric box to field one

  • Add over 40 tons of top rock to new fan areas

  • Update plumbing of existing bathrooms

  • Add training areas including batting cages and pitching bullpens

  • Add landscape to create shaded fan areas

How You Can Help

  • Donate monetarily

  • Purchase a brick for the Donor Patio

  • Trades needed: Fencing, concrete, welders, electricians, plumbers - please click here and fill out info or call/text David Apple 214.763.8194, or Jason Melton 903.821.6987 to discuss specific needs

  • Stone - decorative and fill

  • Concrete

  • Utility crews to move light poles

  • Electrician to consult and manage new lighting project

  • Heavy equipment: skid steers, cranes, removal equipment