Hyames Field

Hyames Field

Robert J. Bobb Stadium at Hyames Field is a baseball stadium located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It is currently the home to the baseball team of Western Michigan University. Originally constructed in 1939, it was part of a $250,000 project that also included the construction of Waldo Stadium.

The baseball field was dedicated and opened in the spring of 1939, and was named for Judson Hyames, who had coached the baseball squads at WMU from 1922–36. He accumulated a record of 166–62–6, and had accomplished one of the more successful records in the region. Hyames had also served as athletic director. The stadium itself was renamed in 2008 after a $1 million donation by Robert J. Bobb.