T-bones Stadium

Home-plate entrance to CommunityAmerica Ballpark, Aug-2006.

The seating bowl, as seen from the concourse behind the visitors’ bullpen.

The park looks over a new entertainment and shopping complex.

Chronological Tour: Stop 310

• Location: 110 Street at State Avenue (US 40), one mile west of I-435, Kansas City, Kan. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 2003 as CommunityAmerica Ballpark
• Additional names: T-bones Stadium (2017); JustBats Field at T-bones Stadium (2019), Legends Field (2021)
• Home team: Kansas City T-bones, Northern League (2003-10); Kansas City T-bones (2011-19), Monarchs (2021-present), American Association; Kansas City Kansas Community College Blue Devils, Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference; Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer (2008-10)
• Capacity: 5,500 (approx.)

Rating: 3 baseballs

Among other features, the park includes a covered batting cage area for the players, an unusual feature at this level. The concourse is covered by the luxury and press box area, allowing for shelter during rainstorms such as the one I experienced the first time I visited, in August 2005. I got back and saw a game in 2006 and took these new photos.

The sponsorship by CommunityAmerica Credit Union expired after the 2016 season. The playing field (but not the stadium) acquired a naming sponsor, as Pro Athlete, Inc., a Kansas City-based sporting goods company, bought partial naming rights and now has one of its brand names advertised.

After a 2020 season during which the team sat idle as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the club undertook a rebrand for 2021. In partnership with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in nearby Kansas City, Mo., the franchise will now be known as the Kansas City Monarchs, utilizing the name of one of the prominent Negro Leagues teams of the first half of the 20th century. With prior field sponsorships having expired, the ballpark is now known as Legends Field in accordance with the theme.