On your right, look for the big steel-and-brick entrance topped by a tall frame and a bold “ONEOK FIELD” sign-hard to miss unless you’re actively trying.
This is ONEOK Field-pronounced “WUN-ohk”-Tulsa’s modern ballpark, sitting right here on the edge of downtown in the historic Greenwood District. It’s home base for the Tulsa Drillers, and since 2015 it’s also hosted FC Tulsa soccer, which means this place has seen its share of both slow summer innings and “no time to blink” late-game drama.
The story starts with a problem: by the late 1990s, the Drillers’ old home out at the fairgrounds was feeling… let’s say, a little tired. Around 2008, they even flirted with moving to Jenks. But city leaders-including then-mayor Kathy Taylor-pushed hard for something that brought crowds back into the heart of Tulsa. The downtown move became official June 26, 2008, and even when a major donor, SemGroup, collapsed financially, the project didn’t fold. Groundbreaking still happened on December 19, 2008.
A month later, ONEOK and the ONEOK Foundation secured the naming rights with $5 million for 20 years-about $7.4 million in today’s money. The park opened April 8, 2010, and the Drillers dropped the first game 7-0, in front of 8,665 people-more than 800 over capacity. Tim McGraw threw the first pitch, which is a pretty classy way to start a new neighborhood hangout.
Designed by Populous and built by Manhattan Construction, the field sits about 13 feet below street level, with 23 suites and a “big-league comforts” mindset-built to feel connected to the city, not stranded outside it. And in 2025, it packed in a record 9,507 fans for a USL Championship final-proof this place can crank up the volume when it needs to.
