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The Ultimate Family
Baseball Experience.

A pro for a week. A kid forever.

Great Baseball. The Ballparks Experience. Branson at your fingertips. Great lodging options. Five days they'll talk about forever — and a week the whole family remembers.

The 2027 Summer Season — twelve weeks of Ballparks tournaments
May → August · 12 Tournaments

The 2027 Summer Season

Twelve weeks of Ballparks-run tournaments — Memorial Day Classic to The Tradition. Weeklong (6-game) and 4-day (5-game) formats. 2027 dates open soon — join the interest list to be first in line.

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The Tradition — father-son weekend at Ballparks
Late August · The Tradition

The fall weekend that started it all

Three days of father-son baseball at the end of August. Same fields, same lights — only the dads are batting. The brand's most personal weekend, and the one that turns a tournament complex into a tradition.

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Partner tournaments at Ballparks of America
Partner Tournaments

Cal Ripken · GMB · Game 7 · AABC

Partner organizations host their own tournaments on our campus — including the Babe Ruth Cal Ripken Major/70 World Series, hosted here since 2017. Different rules, different sign-up, same MLB Replica fields. Not a Ballparks tournament — experience and cost differ.

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Why Teams Come Back

What makes a Ballparks week.

Four things, woven together — Great Baseball, The Ballparks Experience, Branson at your fingertips, and great lodging options.

New Differentiator

Ballparks After Dark.

Lights stay on until midnight every night of tournament week, on every field. Blitzball personalities on campus interacting with players. The campus doesn't close at the final pitch — it gets a second wind.

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Ballparks After Dark — Blitzball under the lights
Ballparks of America is the experience every young player dreams about. They walk in as kids and walk out feeling like big-leaguers. The fields, the lights, the lockers — it's all done right.
Mike Sweeney · 5× MLB All-Star · KC Hall of Fame
As Seen In · KY3 MSN SportsEvents Magazine #4 Branson Tri-Lakes News Youth1 Forbes
Iconic Fields · MLB Replica

Baseball's most iconic ballparks — at two-thirds scale.

Each one a love letter to a moment in baseball history.

St. Louis Stadium

St. Louis

Where Brett's 3,000th hit lives on.

Chicago Field

Chicago

Ivy in spirit. Wrigley in soul.

Boston Park

Boston

The Green Monster & Fisk's wave.

Kansas City Field

Kansas City

Built for the Royals.

Brooklyn Field

Brooklyn

Robinson's debut, in spirit.

Beyond the Field

The off-day Thursday is in the schedule for a reason.

Teams come for the baseball. Families remember the rest. Branson surrounds the campus — and lodging options stretch from the suite next to the field to a cabin on the lake.

Branson activities — Silver Dollar City, Table Rock Lake, the family vacation half
Branson

Branson according to Ballparks.

Silver Dollar City. White Water (every player has a 5-day pass). Table Rock Lake watersports. Trout fishing on Lake Taneycomo. Big Cedar and Thousand Hills golf. The Branson Landing, shows, hiking the Ozarks. A vacation wrapped around a tournament — not the other way around.

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The Lodging — Element Hotel and Thousand Hills Vacations
The Lodging

Players on campus. Families next door.

Players and coaches stay in air-conditioned Team Suites — 18 beds, 14 lockers, pro-style locker rooms with souvenir nameplates. Families have the brand-new Element Hotel right next door, plus the full Thousand Hills Vacations catalog — Cabins at Grand Mountain, Links and Fairways on the golf course, Table Rock Resorts, The Majestic with lake views and rooftop decks. One booking flow. Everyone close to the campus.

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On Campus

Three meals. Glow mini golf. Lights til midnight.

Everything the team needs without leaving the property — and the things they'll remember long after.

Five campus eateries

Three meals a day, included

Bullpen Concessions, Double Play Cafe, Grounders Coffee, Sweet Spot Ice Cream, Clubhouse weekly menu. Five spots on the campus — no driving anywhere.

Campus Dining
Grand Slam Entertainment

Game's over. Fun begins.

Operation Outbreak / Zombie Laser Tag. The Key Escape Rooms. Grand Slam Glow Mini Golf. Upper Deck Batting Cages. On-Deck Arcade. Open late into Ballparks After Dark.

Entertainment
2027 Calendar

Pick your week.

Twelve summer tournaments. Six age groups. The MLB Replica fields. 2027 dates open soon — join the interest list to be first in line.

Coming 2027 · 11U–14U

Memorial Day Classic

Open the season under the lights. 4-day, 4-game guarantee.

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Coming 2027 · 12U–13U

Summer Kickoff

Six days. The big stages. The week summer actually begins.

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Coming 2027 · 12U–14U

Gold Glove Classic

Defense wins championships. Bring yours.

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Coming 2027 · 12U–13U

Boys of Summer

Long days. Long fly balls. The longest week of summer.

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A Family Baseball Company

Springfield owners. Baseball dads. Built for families.

Ballparks of America is owned by four Springfield, MO businessmen — all baseball dads — who took the helm in 2021 and have been pouring into the campus ever since. The mission: deliver the ultimate family baseball experience for the next generation of players and the families who travel with them.

"A pro for a week. A kid forever." — the line that anchors everything we build.

Meet the Ownership Team
Ballparks of America
Our Partners

A big thank you to our partners.

Great Southern Bank Silver Dollar City USA Baseball Rawlings Cooperstown Bat Triton Oakley Baseballism Hi-Cast Cold Stone Titanic Branson White Water

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