The finished product does not tell the origin story of the countless hours and boundless energy that carried Wichita State's baseball stadium to this point.
Fortunately, there are many people who lived it and can recount the program's beginnings in 1977 and how a baseball field with flatbed trailers for bleachers and no locker rooms turned into a showcase for the sport. Humble is too strong, as those people know, because when WSU hired coach Gene Stephenson in 1977, he became the program's singular asset.
On Feb. 10, 1977, WSU baseball existed as an idea with a site for a field.