Drillers Win Freitas Award from Baseball America

PRESS RELEASE – The Tulsa Drillers franchise has been awarded the prestigious Double-A Bob Freitas Award by the publication Baseball America. The Freitas Awards are presented annually to the top franchises in each of the four levels of Minor League Baseball to honor clubs that show sustained excellence in the business of minor league baseball. The awards are named after longtime minor league

Drillers Break Record for Most Sellouts in One Season at ONEOK Field

PRESS RELEASE – For a while Friday night, the Tulsa Drillers and Arkansas Travelers engaged in a pitchers’ duel similar to the one that took place a night earlier. Then Randal Grichuk came to bat in the top of the eighth inning.

Tulsa Sees More Downtown Development Near Ballpark

The area around ONEOK Field, the third-season home of the Double-A Tulsa Drillers (Texas League) in downtown Tulsa, is getting two new developments, including a new restuarant called the Rusty Crane and a multi-purpose building that will have 70 apartment units and commercial space for two to three businesses.  Read more and view news report here.

Race for the Cure in Tulsa

The 2011 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure took place on Saturday at ONEOK Field, home of the Double-A Tulsa Drillers, in downtown Tulsa on Saturday.  The event, which is in its 15th year, moved from CityPlex Towers in south Tulsa last year to ONEOK.  We don’t have an official number, but the goal was for 13,000 participants to raise more than $1 million to fight breast cancer.  Read more and view photos here.

Heat Takes Toll on Drillers’ Attendance

Attendance at ONEOK Field, home of the Double-A Tulsa Drillers (Texas League), dropped by about 35,000 this season, but don’t blame the team.  Oklahoma, like Texas, was pummeled throughout the summer with six digit temperatures, which would challenge even the most loyal fan base.  Read more here.

One Plaintiff Remains in Tulsa Ballpark Suit

A judge on Thursday dismissed all but one of the five plaintiffs in a suit claiming that the City of Tulsa violated the “taking clause,” “due-process clause,” and the First, Fifth, and 14th amendments to the Constitution when a ballpark assessment fee was imposed on downtown property owners to help build ONEOK Field for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers.  Marc Price, the remaining plaintiff, owns 15 properties in the