Hi Corbett Field

Awesome place to catch a ballgame. Sure it lacks the «expected conveniences» of a modern ballpark like a fancy scoreboard or a lush beer and food menu, but this place reconnects the fan and the game on a close and personal level. Cheap seats, not a bad view in the house and no lines at the bathrooms. Shade is a precious commodity in Tucson so the premium seats in the shadows are definitely with the extra cost on a hot and sunny day. Being off campus, beer is served. I repeat, beer is served.

Hi Corbett is a fun place to watch a college baseball game they serve beer because it’s not on campus my only gripe is that there’s not much shade so the best time to catch a game is probably in March or April the Cleveland Indians found a lot of major-​league baseball here at this part so it’s pretty uniqueOne of college baseball’s best venues

A nice baseball field in the middle of Reid Park. Free parking, cheap tickets and a quality facility. Tickets are ~$ 8 and you can usually buy them at the stadium day of (there is a fee online). Most seating is open with the exception of a few shaded seats behind the batter, the very front rows and one small Section near 1^st base. That being said, it can get hot in the general admission seats during day games.
As the facility is off campus, they serve beer (~$ 9 for a large specialty draft beer). They also have Sunday funday where soda and hot dogs are $ 2.
I miss not having a mlb team in town, or spring training for that matter. So u of a baseball fills my live baseball void. Go cats.

I love baseball and nachos. Here you get the best of both worlds. The nachos are seriously delicious and you get the enjoy them along with the smells of fresh popcorn and freshly mowed grass (sorry, Chase, I love the AC and you, but baseball is meant to be outside). It’s a fun and inexpensive and it great to comeout and support the BatCats.

Old school and I LIKE it!!! Don’t hate the stadium, hate the game… or the city planners. We are kinda new here, but lived here back on the day. It’s sad what happened to baseball in TUS, but I am glad the Cats play here. I just wish there were more day games in the spring when the weather is perfect. Not the fault of the park. As long as it is here, my son and I will show up for any game when it’s possible.

Lets go Wildcats let’s go!

Went there for the first time to watch the Wildcats play. It’s a nice stadium with good seating all around (even the cheapest seats are pretty close). The ushers are friendly and don’t mind if you move around to better seats. Parking is a little bit tricky since the team can pull 2000 plus people even vs an unknown team, so it is best to get there early or ride a bike etc. The stadium food is overpriced (as expected) but generally the place is clean and a nice place to enjoy a game.

~3.5 stars~
My rating is really for the seat «ushers» being so friendly and allowing my friend and I to grab much better seats for our game.
My friend, Alex, and I came here for an NCAA Tournament Regional Baseball Playoff game. New Mexico State University was playing Louisville and we wanted to support our fellow Aggies. We scalped two general admission tickets from a fan that bought session passes for his Wildcats– probably not necessary, but we bypassed the line and got tickets for $ 10 a piece. Not bad.
We entered the stadium and were nicely pointed in the right direction to the «general admission» section. Um, no. Not what we were hoping for on this RECORD HEAT (107 degrees) day at 4:00 in the afternoon; all metal bleachers with no covering for shade even remotely close to the seating. I know that this is standard general admission in most ball parks, but still…
We somehow decided to go to the seats right behind home plate. Fantastic idea, if I say so myself. We asked the usher if we could sit on the upper level, about 10 rows RIGHT BEHIND home plate. She grinned and said of course, just make sure if someone who has the seats kicks you out, just move again. It’s a rarity to find friendly, non-​snarky employees at stadiums and I’m glad she violated this norm!
Around 4:45, the sweat was pouring down our bodies. Swamp a$$ much? Whoops. We didn’t feel like spending a fortune on bottled water, and Alex scouted out free water from a stand. Bonus!
NEGATIVE: Oooookaaaaayyy, their concession runners need to turn the annoying button to the OFF position. The one guy came by at least two dozen times. No exaggeration. And every time, SCREAMING at the top of his lungs at us the exact same thing he just did one out ago: «YOUUUU KNOOWWWWW YOU WAAAANTT A LEMONAAAADE!» …Uh, no. We don’t want your lemonade. Especially when you ask every waking moment during the game. I know that this is his job to sell food and drinks, but he approached it completely wrong. The other fans around us were voicing their dismay with this employee as well.
Overall, nice ball park and even nicer employees, minus the concession runners. I’ll gladly come back here for another baseball game.

I like this facility. I know its old, and people complain, but I don’t have any problems. The parking can get hectic, but nothing too terrible. There are lots of concessions and vendors. The bathrooms are adequate. Any seat there is a good seat, and its the only U of A sporting event you can drink at. SOLD. I’m in. Summer, beer, baseball. How much more American can it get?

Another poster noted moving the Arizona baseball games here was a great idea, I’d agree, and, yes, adding beer to the Wildcat baseball experience really kicks up Obama’s Hope & Change pledge to unforeseen levels of fulfillment. Beer & baseball is one of life’s great combos, up there with root beer & vanilla ice cream, Dick Cheney & Halliburton, coffee & cinnamon buns, John Mellencamp & Me’Shell Ndegeocello, etc. Also where one of cinema’s greatest cinematic treasures was filmed, «Major League»; where we learned it is not a good thing to mess with Jobu’s rum. Don’t mess with his beer either. Very, very bad.

When it was first announced that Arizona Baseball would be moving into Hi Corbett, I was dissapointed. I love attending Arizona ball games at Sancet Field. The facility is nice, and I love being on the Arizona campus. However, after going to a few games at Hi Corbett, I must admit that moving here was the best thing Arizona Baseball ever did. First off, they serve beer! And while the stadium and facilities were apparently too old /​out dated for major league spring training teams, they are perfect for college ball. And they serve beer! The crowds seem to be much bigger at Hi Corbett than they ever were at Sancet. The stands are in good condition, with plenty of covered seats. The field looks beautiful, and there is much more parking here than on campus. I love going to the games now. Oh, and they serve beer!

All in all, I have great memories of my visit to Hi Corbett. It is one of the older minor league parks around — not sure if the Tucson Toros still play there. There was a section that showed a little bit about the history of the park and the Toros — quite nice.
I attended a spring training game — Rockies vs White Sox. This was before both teams bolted from Tucson to newer parks in the Phoenix area — kind of a shame for the people in Tucson. Sight lines were good and the players were accessible.
No. it’s not a park with all the bells and whistles that most of the spring training facilities now have. But as for a place to sit back and enjoy a game — it’s as good as any!

Drove down from Chandler simply because I didn’t have anything else to do, it was the middle of the week, and I wanted to see the Rockies play. Oh, and after living in Arizona for 2 years I had yet to make it to Tucson.
First, getting there was confusing as the freeway was under construction and took forever.
Second, It seemed the stadium was just in the middle of a run down park/​zoo. Parking was tough, but I found one! Best of all, it was FREE!
Get my ticket. Outfield Reserve, 1^st base = $ 11
Bought one beer, Coors Light = $ 6.25, and it was little. Pretty Weak
I had a very nice time watching the game. It was a long one too; about 3.5÷4 hours. As far as the actual stadium goes I thought it was kind of dumpy and wonder why it is that the Rockies, or any team is still playing here. They could be doing so much better if they relocated to another city, say one closer to the rest of the Cactus League.
They could go like the Indians and Reds and get a city to build them a new one. Tolleson, Avondale, Gilbert…
Worth the drive, but I don’t think that I will be going to another game there, well maybe one.

Hi Corbett Field is a prime example of how NOT to build a Spring Training stadium. The original tenants, the Cleveland Indians, were right to move to Florida after playing here all of those years. The greatest thing about this park is that the movie Major League was filmed, in part, here.
To begin, it is in Tucson. This makes the place unbearable right out of the gun. Then, you have to drive through Tucson to get there. There is no freeway close by. The stadium is in the middle of a neighborhood/​golf course/​zoo. While that makes for a nice day of activities, it does not make for a fun day for me. To get there, get off on Prince (because the freeway is all torn up) and go down to Country Club. Take Country Club south to Broadway, turn left, then turn right on Randolf. Don’t mind the El Convict Mall on your left. Hope that either no one is there or that you are early enough, otherwise, you might as well hand your keys over now because you’ll be parking at that mall. Parking is free but takes forever when it is busy. Come early, leave early — that’s my motto.
Once you get there, you can either do your best Willy Mays Hayes impression outside or you can go in. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Once you get in you find a stadium that is perfectly reflective of Tucson — looks like Mexico but dirtier. Section numbers are strange so plan on walking around to find your seats. You won’t be able to see the field until you are in the stands so don’t plan on watching the game while you get food or drinks.
There is no grass at Hi Corbett. The wooden walls and metal scoreboard make up the extent of the outfield. Why a stadium in the middle of a park doesn’t have grass is beyond me. They do have what is known as the «Sandpile». That, of course, is not sand either. It is metal bleachers. The Rockies try to bring a bit of that Coors Field ‘Rock Pile’ action to Tucson by dressing up the name of the bleachers which, as it turns out, seem to make up about half of this stadium’s seats. The regular seats are small, crammed, and unshaded with the exception of the highest row behind home plate. They are, however, close to the field. The biggest problem is that the stadium faces south, drenching every seat in sunlight and making the bleachers feel like they are 100 degrees. The temperature gauge on the scoreboard is at least 10 degrees cooler than it is in the stands.
The food options are uninspired. There are only a couple independent vendors which is too bad because there is a ton of space down the left field line for more. The BBQ we had was okay but not worth the calories. The biggest plus about Hi Corbett was the $ 3.25 Coors draft. That is a price that is unbeatable in baseball (except for those AAA dollar beer nights).
I’d say get there early, get some food, steak out a picnic table with an umbrella near left field, stay for 5 innings, then drive over to Kon Tiki and order a Scorpion. It is the best thing Tucson has going for it.

Hi Corbett Field is an excellent facility for spring training. It’s not the best of the Cactus League, but it’s purpose is well intended. If I had to point out a couple of problems, it would be parking and the lack of speed with the concession stands. Parking can be a little tough, but it’s free, where as other parks like Tucson Electric Park have a minimal charge of only $ 5, but a charge nonetheless. The concession stands are a bit slow, as if they too were in their own spring training. The field is easy to navigate and access to the players is simple and effective. The temperature on the scoreboard fluctuates with every breeze but for the most part is accurate, sort of. Hi Corbett Field serves its purpose, but if you visit other stadiums during spring training, you may come back to viewing Hi Corbett as a dump. Go while you can, cause the Rockies wont be here much longer.

It was a blazing speed day for us on our Spring Training tour. We got up early to drive from Phoenix down to Tuscon for a 12pm game. After a few false starts in the morning, we finally made the drive out. We got to the stadium, seemingly early (about an hour before game time) and still had to park way out. The parking format here sucks.
The stadium had a high school stadium kind of feel walking in. The staff were very friendly and seemed like they were happy to be there. We did wait in line for a spin the wheel game so the other half could get a shirt with one of his fantasy baseball players names on it. Oh, the things we do…
We walked around to the area that we are sure we bought tickets in and realized that our seats were way out on the other side of the stadium. Ugh. Only about 15 seats had shade and only maybe ¹⁄₃ of all the seats were stadium seating. The rest… bleachers, and not comfortable ones either.
We found ourselves on the 3^rd base side with very friendly people around us, many of whom were from the bay area. Who would have thought. We were only about 12 rows up from the dugout. The stadium is pretty small so everyone has above average seats.
My big complaint, the heat. Though the stadium sign said barely 79 degrees, it felt over a hundred. I think the whole in the ozone is right over this park. There is no protection what-​so-​ever from the sun. So, be prepared, wear a hat, bring sunblock, a spritzer, a pocket fan, and be willing to get up and go hide in the shade periodically,
It was a good game, and a park with a good up close feel to it, but I wouldn’t be crushed if we didn’t go here again.

We visited this park in 2007. It has a nice old-​school feel to it, and is certainly worth the trip out. However, it shows its age a little bit– definitely not as swanky as Electric Park or some of the newer facilities around Phoenix.
You definitely want to come early as parking is limited and they’ll likely send you over to a local mall to park and walk over. Also, I was a little perturbed that they actually ran out of water to sell you during the game! How does that happen in the desert?