Edible Field is a ballpark located in

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and home to the TCL Brazos Valley Bombers and the

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Brazos Valley Cavalry soccer team. Renamed by a corporate sponsorship with

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in 2021, it was long known as Travis Field during its use by several minor-league baseball teams and

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for several decades.

History

Originally known as Bomber Field, the ballpark was the former home to the

Bryan Bombers The Bryan Bombers were a Class-C minor league baseball team based in Bryan, Texas that played in the Lone Star League (1947–1948) and East Texas League (1949). Major league players Jo-Jo Moore, Stan Goletz, Jesse Landrum and Mel Deutsch played ...

, who were part of the

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from 1947 to 1948 and the

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in 1949, followed by the

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of the East Texas League in 1950, Bryan Majors of the

Big State League The Big State League was a mid-level, Class B level circuit in American minor league baseball that played for 11 seasons, from 1947 through 1957. Its member clubs were exclusively based in Texas. The Corpus Christi Clippers (1955-1956), Texark ...

in 1953, and the Bryan Indians of the Big State League in 1954. Built from 1946 to 1947 at a cost $45,000, Bomber Field opened April 24, 1947 before a maximum crowd of 2,000 spectators with a 3-1 win for the Bombers over the Lufkin Foresters. The Texas A&M Aggies baseball team played in the 1959 District 6 playoffs against the

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at Travis Park because the Bryan stadium seated more than

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. A&M lost two games in the double-elimination playoff, both 1–0, to the Wildcats before overflow crowds of 6,000. From 1972 to 1975, Texas A&M had to play home games at Travis Park, as school officials had taken the Kyle baseball stadium away during the expansion of

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. The Aggies returned to Kyle Baseball Field for two complete seasons before

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opened in 1978. (The Aggies began that season in February playing at Travis as the Olsen stadium was not yet complete.) The ballpark has also used by area school and community teams, and by the

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team before 1994. A permanent tenant returned to the field in 2007 when the Brazos Valley Bombers of the Texas Collegiate Summer League began play. In January 2017, it was announced that USL/PDL soccer club Brazos Valley Cavalry would play their games at the stadium.

Sources

*"Southwest Conference's Greatest Hits," Neal Farmer, c.1996

References

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