We’ve been presenting our Ballpark of the Year award since the year 2000. It’s been an annual affair, except in 2020 when COVID wiped out the Minor League season, and last year when there weren’t really any new, fully finished parks. So we pushed the unfinished parks from last year (Glacier Range Riders and Lake Country DockHounds) to 2023, when a completely rebuilt park opened for the New Jersey Jackals. So following no award for 2022, that meant that there were three parks in the running for the 2023 plaque.
We visited all three, and wrote in-depth reviews of them all. At the top of this page are links that lead you to those reviews.
For years, we’ve used a committee of three (webmaster Joe Mock, broadcaster Doug Greenwald and author Graham Knight) to select the winner of the award. This year, there was no disagreement among the three: the winner is Glacier Bank Park in Flathead Valley in Montana, home of the Glacier Range Riders of the Pioneer League.
Read the press release announcing the award, then check out our review of the park to see all it has going for it!