One correction: I was talking to someone who played Freshman baseball in '64, and his recollection was that they practiced at Kyle Field, but played games at Travis Park, and he didn't remember the old wooden grandstand. I went back and looked and cannot find a definitive answer, but the writeup in the '64 book mention Travis Park, while showing photos of Kyle Field (with the wooden grandstand). It looks like, by '65, the wooden grandstand was gone (based on an aerial photo on the inside flap) and at least some games were played at Travis Park (not sure about Kyle), however the '66 yearbook clearly shows games at Kyle (you can see the horseshoe in the background). The '63 yearbook clearly shows photos of the old wooden grandstand labeled as fans at Kyle Field, so I think that's accurate, but they were known, on occasion, to reuse photos from prior years.
I would love to have a definite answer. The best I can do is speculate that that the wooden grandstand was removed (I heard some stories at one time about storm damage) by 1965. It also seems that we may have split home games between Travis Park and Kyle (I saw one reference to a Friday night game that makes me think they might have played night games at Travis Park, since Kyle baseball field never had lights).
I would love to have a definite answer. The best I can do is speculate that that the wooden grandstand was removed (I heard some stories at one time about storm damage) by 1965. It also seems that we may have split home games between Travis Park and Kyle (I saw one reference to a Friday night game that makes me think they might have played night games at Travis Park, since Kyle baseball field never had lights).
