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Cap City Cobras to Host Field Day at Patterson Park

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Come by Patterson Park on Saturday, September 25th from 9–11am for a field day of fun and games with the Cap City Cobras, Patterson’s own sandlot baseball team! We are thrilled to be hosting our first event at the park in a year and a half and kindly ask everyone to wear a mask.

The Cobras have been playing on Wednesday evenings at the park for years. They were first sandlot team to play at the Field of Dreams in Iowa and we are wrapping up their eighth season as a squad. To show their appreciation for Patterson Park neighbors, the Cobras will be hosting a casual drop-in field day with some fun baseball activities and some Cobras merch giveaways. Stop by on your morning walk, bring a glove, bring the kids (and, any kids-sized equipment they may want to use). There will be opportunities for all ages and abilities to goof around and do some hitting and some fielding with your friendly, neighborhood Cobras.

Friends of Patterson Park is so grateful for all the work the Cobras have done building out the baseball field and writing grants for major park improvements like the new backstop. Check out the recent story in Austin Monthly about the team. Free breakfast refreshments provided.

APF Grant Funds New Backstop at Patterson Park

New Backstop for Baseball Field Funded by Austin Parks Foundation Grant

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We are thrilled to announce that Friends of Patterson park has received a $5,000 ACL Music Festival Grant from the Austin Parks Foundation to replace the baseball field backstop. The new backstop will have a clamshell to protect neighbors, walkers, and cars in the Genesis Parking lot.

This is part of the improvements to the park’s athletic facilities that our group began planning in spring 2019, addressing the next community priority in our neighborhood park plan. Other elements of this project are seating behind the backstop for players, family and friends, and new backboards, youth baskets and a shade structure at the basketball court. A grant for the remainder of the project is under review by the City of Austin’s Neighborhood Partnering Program this spring.

We are so grateful for the continued support of APF, as well as the friends, neighbors and business sponsors who supported our fundraising campaign during Amplify Austin in 2020. We will be using funds raised last year to pay for our match and complete the installation of the backstop. We couldn’t have done this without Nature’s Treasures, Franklin Barbecue, Mueller Foundation, Jade Construction, Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Erin Tassoulas Design + Build and Cherrywood Neighborhood Association.

  • Damaged backstop at Patterson Park, 2019.
  • Allied backstop drawing
  • Amplify sponsors 2020
Baseball diamond imrovements at Patterson Park. Photo by J. Potter-Miller/FoPP.

September 6 Friends of Patterson Park Meeting

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Join Friends of Patterson Park for a discussion of current and proposed projects and refreshments. We’ve got a lot to talk about but will keep things moving quickly.

Thursday, Sept. 6 @ 8-9pm
Sour Duck, 1814 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd

1) Welcome and introductions (5 mins.)

2) Update on Austin Parks Foundation Community Grant and next steps on playground project: Jennifer PM (10 mins.)

3) Update on Neighborhood Partnering Program grant application: Jennifer PM (5 mins.)

4) CherryWoodstock Music and Art Festival: Jeremy Klitzman, Organizer (10 mins.)

5) Tree and Butterfly Party (held in parallel to Oct. 27 Family Arbor and Monarch Appreciation Day at the Zilker Botanical Garden): Kathleen Mannello, Austin Parks Foundation (10 mins.)

6) Proposed improvements to baseball field: Seth Kessler, Cap City Cobras (10 mins.)

7) Proposed tree planting & shade sails with funds raised by Patterson swim team: Dusty Harshman, Patterson Piranhas (10 mins.)

Baseball diamond imrovements at Patterson Park. Photo by J. Potter-Miller/FoPP.

Cap City Cobras Turn Field into a Baseball Diamond

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The Cap City Cobras, a baseball team competing in the Sandlot League, has been practicing at Patterson Park for 2 years. This weekend they came out to turn the field into a proper baseball diamond with bases marked off and a pitcher’s mound. Thanks PARD for the donated materials, and thanks Cobras for the hard work! We look forward to seeing more folks of all ages playing ball at the park.

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Photos by J. Potter-Miller