The public can get its first look at the new Walton High School baseball facility on Sunday.
The Walton Raider Dugout Club, a group of parent boosters, are holding a “Day at the Yard” event as part of a series of fundraising activities leading up to the 2024 baseball season.
The festivities take place from 1-5 at the baseball facility (1499 Pine Road). Admission is free, and activity tickets are $3-$5 each.
Those activities include a home run competition, dunk tank, pitching stations, bouncy houses, face painting and a hot dog bar.
There also will be a silent auction for a seven-day trip to Italy and two student parking spaces.
Since September, the booster club has conducting a brick campaign, selling personally customized laser-engraved bricks at The Yard, and that effort will conclude on Sunday.
The bricks cost $200 or $400 and will be delivered and installed at the field before the start of the season.
The baseball facility is part of a $6.78 million athletics complex at Walton that includes tennis courts.
For the last two years, the Walton baseball team played home games at East Cobb Baseball, near Kell High School, after its former facility on the Walton campus was reconfigured for the varsity softball team.
The softball and tennis teams relocated to Terrell Mill Park to make way for the Walton classroom building that opened in 2017.
While the Walton tennis teams competed last spring at their new facility, the baseball field wasn’t ready for the 2023 season.
The combined facility has 80 parking spaces, and the Cobb County School District will soon be building a sidewalk and a pedestrian bridge from the Walton campus to the new complex.
The Raiders will have tryouts and begin practice in January, with their first game at The Yard in February.
There also will be a youth baseball clinic on Nov. 7, when school is out due to local municipal elections.
Coach Shane Amos, who guided Walton to state titles in 2007 and 2016, will be starting his 21st season as the Raiders head coach.
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