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1987/88 – present · 501 West South Street
The fame: The South Bend Cubs' ballpark holds a documented distinction of a kind no other place in this section can claim: it has repeatedly been voted the best ballpark of its class in the country. Ballpark Digest's Best of the Ballparks balloting made it the nation's best Class-A park in 2017 — an eighth seed's run through the bracket that beat Fort Wayne's Parkview Field on the way and took the final, 56 percent, over Quad Cities — and the best High-A park in 2022 and again in 2023, in the balloting the club's own league boilerplate now carries as a standing line. It had earlier taken Ballpark Digest's Ballpark Renovation of the Year for 2012, and it hosted the Midwest League's All-Star Game in 2019 — the last the league played, as the team's record notes. The Sports history in this record owns the park whole: its opening as the Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium (the year stands open in the Sports record — 1987 in the visitor bureau's account, 1988 in the club history's season line), the 2012 transformation, and the 48-million-dollar renovation whose second deck opened in 2026.
The name it opened under: The park first carried the name of Stan Coveleski, the Hall of Fame spitballer who made this city his home and whose pitching record — the 1920 World Series whole — is the Sports Players history's. The ballpark is thus a famous location twice over: for the votes it has won in the present, and for the name it was built under, which ties its ground to Cooperstown. The Four Winds name, from the Pokagon Band's casino, is the present chapter; the fame's documentary trail runs through both.
Cross-reference: Sports owns the venue and the club; Sports Players owns Coveleski. This entry carries the balloting record and the naming tie.
Sources
- Ballpark Digest — the Best of the Ballparks results: 2017 Class-A champion (final 56% over Quad Cities; Parkview Field beaten en route); the 2022 High-A crown; Ballpark Renovation of the Year, 2012.
- The South Bend Cubs (milb.com) — the club's standing record: Best High-A Ballpark 2022 and 2023; host of the final Midwest League All-Star Game, 2019.
- The Sports history in this record — the park's opening under the Coveleski name with its year standing open, the renovations, and the $48 million second deck of 2026.