DAN LAW FIELD AT RIP GRIFFIN PARK
After its $5 million renovation in 2011-2012, Texas Tech's Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park is viewed as one of the nation's top baseball facilities in the country. Rip Griffin Park offers a top-notch game atmosphere, outstanding fan support and first-rate facilities. The field has also proved to be one of the toughest places for opponents to visit as the Red Raiders have posted eight seasons of winning more than 80 percent of their home games.
The home of the Red Raiders has been home to various NCAA Regional and conference post- season events as Texas Tech has been selected to host an NCAA baseball regional three different times. All three were enormous successes. In 1999, Texas Tech hosted the four-team NCAA Regional in Lubbock and ranked sixth among the 16 regionals in attendance as the tourney drew a total of 19,869 fans to see Texas Tech, Rice, Rutgers and UW-Milwaukee play. Tech averaged 2,838 fans during the seven-game tournament. The 1997 NCAA Regional drew 4,992 fans to see Tech play Southwest Texas State. Overall, the 10 games in the 1997 NCAA Regional drew 23,407 total fans, an average of 2304.7 fans per game. In 1996, the stadium, then named Dan Law Field, averaged 2,808.8 fans per game as Tech hosted a six-team NCAA Regional.
Texas Tech also hosted the 1996 Southwest Conference Post-Season Tournament. The four-day event, which drew all seven SWC teams for the first time in history, saw 31,542 fans enter the balpark, an average of 2,628.5 per game.
In the Fall of 2001, Texas Tech began yet another phase of renovations as the university continues to show its support of the Red Raider baseball program. Phase One of a major renovation to the stadium was completed prior to the start of the 2002 season. Texas Tech spent $1.7 milllion on a new clubhouse, an outfield fence complete with major league-style bullpens, an interior brick facade and a new exterior fence.
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Texas Tech officials made another addition to the baseball stadium in the fall of 2003 as Tech installed a new scoreboard complete with a video screen. RaiderVision, Texas Tech's in-house television department, now makes its home at three athletic facilities (Jones AT&T Stadium, United Spirit Arena and Dan Law Field). Tech fans get to experience a "live" video screen that offers instant replays and various camera angles to help increase the excitement of the game. The entire cost of the project was approximately $600,000.
With the addition of FieldTurf in the fall of 2007 and more renovations on the planning board, Dan Law Field will continue to be one of the top venues in all of college baseball.
In the spring of 2011, Texas Tech announced a $5 million renovation to what would soon be named Rip Griffin Park. The renovation would increase attendance to 4,921 while installing 10 luxury suites (12 seats per suite) with 1,154 chair-back seats in the middle section of the grandstands. Other features of the renovation include, television broadcast booth, home and visitor radio booths and a booth for writting press, shading structure over the center of the grandstands, tensioned back-stop netting that will provide unobstructed view of the playing field, new elevator for club/suite/press box access, grandstand banners showcasing the history of Texas Tech baseball and a circular landscaped seating area with brick inlaid Double T.
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