Jim Wade Stadium has been the home of Oklahoma City University baseball since 1976.
The stadium has recently undergone several renovations, including new backstop, chairback seats and metal bleachers, dugout, scoreboard, sprinkler systems and stadium lights installed in the past couple of years. Seating capacity is 400 with 180 chairback seats. The facility has been surrounded with wrought iron and brick columns. Lights were installed in 2005, making night games possible for the first time at Jim Wade Stadium.
The new entryway to Jim Wade Stadium has been named Metheny Alumni Plaza in honor of Les Metheny, a former dean of students and baseball coach at OCU from 1948-85.
The Paul and Kim Sanders ticket booth was named in honor of longtime OCU supporters.
It was named after Gen. Jim Wade in April 2005. Wade is a former OCU baseball, basketball and football player and an OCU Athletic Hall of Famer. Wade is a retired Air Force general who was decorated for service in the Korean War.
The stadium sits next to C.R. Sutton Baseball Complex, which includes an indoor hitting facility, locker rooms, dressing rooms and coaches offices. It was completed in 1982.
Overlooking the stadium is the J.R. Homsey press box, built in 2000. The box is lined with baseball memorabilia, including a signed Johnny Bench picture and a mural featuring Harmon Killebrew. It offers season-ticket seating and media facilities comparable to any among small colleges.
Oklahoma City University added the name "Denney Crabaugh Field" to its baseball facilities in honor of the long-time baseball coach who led the program for 34 years. The facility will now be known as Denney Crabaugh Field at Jim Wade Stadium.
Crabaugh passed away in 2022, leaving a legacy of excellence in competition and mentorship outside of it. He directed Oklahoma City to a 1,601-493-2 record, collecting victory No. 1,600 in 2022 in the NAIA Championship Opening Round's Oklahoma City Bracket. Crabaugh led OCU to 14 NAIA World Series appearances, 14 50-win seasons, four trips to the national title game and the 2005 national championship.
Crabaugh coached 92 all-Americans, 150 future professionals, 71 Major League Baseball draftees, 83 NAIA scholar-athletes, 21 CoSIDA academic all-Americans and eight national player of the year award winners. Five OCU alumni coached by Crabaugh reached the major leagues, including 2006 National League batting champion Freddy Sanchez.
The proposal for the field naming was overwhelmingly approved during the OCU Board of Trustees' January meeting.
