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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 6, 1997
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Future Hoglund Park begins improvements
Groundbreaking ceremony praises $1 million donor
By Kristie Blasi
By Kristie Bisi
kbiasi@kansan.com
Sports editor
The official first steps toward the completion of Hoglund Park were made at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday at Hoglund-Maupin Stadium.
The rededication will occur when the $1.6 million in renovations are completed, tentatively before the 1999 Kansas baseball season.
The improvements include a new entrance, expanded dugouts, private team restrooms, men's and women's public restrooms, expanded concession areas, lighting, bating cage improvements, a sound system, a new outfield fence and a new press box.
"It's the kind of facility you expect at the University of Kansas," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said. "A major reason for this facility is that the donor says if we're going to have programs and facilities, they should be first-rate."
That donor is Forrest Hoglund, who has contributed more than $1 million to the renovation fund. The park will be renamed in his honor.
The Kansas City, Mo., native lettered in baseball from 1954 to 1956. He lives in Houston, where he is chief executive officer for Enron Oil and Gas.
"I'ta a great day as far as I'm concerned," Hoglund said. "The stadium will be pretty nice and one of the best — not the biggest."
The renovation will increase seating from 1,300 to more than 2,000. The first five rows of bleachers behind home plate will be removed, and 206 chair-back seats will be added in an area called the On Deck Circle.
Bob Frederick, athletic director, said he was excited about the improvements to the stadium.
"Hoglund Park, when it is all finished,
will be a wonderful facility," he said. "It will be competitive with other Big 12 Conference parks."
Frederick said that Hoglund and other supporters had come forward in the early 1980s, when the future of Kansas baseball was in question because of financial difficulties.
"They stepped up and said, 'We want to have Kansas baseball forever,'" Frederick said.
An alumnii baseball game followed the groundbreaking ceremony. The 50 players included letter winners from as early as 1947 and as recently as 1993.
Darrell Houk, who lettered in 1950-51 and now lives in Bartlesville, Okla., returned for the festivities, which included a tailgate party before the Kansas-Oklahoma football game Saturday.
"I think the stadium is going to be great," Houk said. "The new schools in the conference have nice facilities, and hopefully it will help the players and get a
Bobby Randall, Kansas baseball coach, Forrest Hoglund, who donated $1 million for renovations, Baby Jay, Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Bob Frederick, athletic director, broke ground for improvements to Hoglund-Maupin Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
few fans out here."
The Kansas baseball team also attended the ceremonies and watched the alumni game.
"It's a neat experience for me because I'm from Lawrence, and I've been around the ballpark a long time and have seen some of these guys play," said Shane Wedd, sophomore catcher. "From the drawing it looks like one of the premier facilities in the nation. Hopefully, we'll be able to play as good as it looks."
Right: Floyd Temple, who coached the Kansas baseball team for 28 years, and Charles Dobson, who played with the California Angels and the Oakland Athletics, talk on the mound during Saturday's alumni game.
Photo by Geoff Krieaer/KANSAN
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