Riverfront Stadium (Wichita)
Riverfront Stadium is a baseball park in downtown Wichita, Kansas, United States. It serves as the home ballpark of the Wichita Wind Surge of the Double-A Central. The team relocated from the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana, after the 2019 season. History. Riverfront Stadium was built on the site of the former Lawrence–Dumont Stadium, a minor league ballpark in use from 1934 to 2018. It has a total seating capacity of 10,025 people with 6,000 in fixed seating in addition to luxury suites and a grass berm in right field. When not used for  baseball, the city plans to use the facility for sports festivals, high school football, concerts, and an ice rink in winter. The new ballpark will share hosting of the National Baseball Congress World Series with Eck Stadium at Wichita State. The NBC World Series was played entirely at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium from 1935 until 2018. Ground was broken for the ballpark in February, 2019. A topping out ceremony, marking the placement of the last steel beam, was held on August 7, 2019. The stadium name was announced on March 6, 2020. The ballpark was built to host the Wichita Wind  Surge, a Triple-A team of the Pacific Coast League. However, a combination of the cancellation of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Major League Baseball's realignment of the minor leagues for 2021, resulted in the team dropping down to the Double-A Texas League without having played a Triple-A game. On April 10, 2021, the Wichita State Shockers baseball team hosted the University of Houston in the first game played at Riverfront Stadium. See also. Former baseball stadiums in Wichita: