RHWS Field Usage & Guidelines
Please understand this is good for all; we want to leave these facilities as good as we found them
Welcome to the Roy Hobbs World Series.
The collection of facilities made available to Roy Hobbs Baseball by Lee County Parks and Recreation are second to none in Florida and perhaps nationally.
While we will play more than 900+ games during our 5 weeks of the 36th Roy Hobbs World Series – which means many of these fields will take a beating – it still remains our responsibility to be good stewards of what we have to work with.
It’s little things … like cleaning up dugouts, keeping equipment bags on the warning tracks, not spitting gum or smokeless tobacco in the grass, warming up in the outfield … it’s the little things that add up and help us be respectful of these outstanding facilities.
It is the goal of Roy Hobbs Baseball to provide the best amateur baseball experience possible, and we hope you will help the 2025 Roy Hobbs World Series run smoothly. The following points are established to help guide you through what we can do and cannot do here.
We are guests
Although Roy Hobbs Baseball leases 22+ fields in Lee County this year, we are all guests on these fields, and it is important that each of us treats these facilities with respect and honors the guidelines that govern their usage.
Both our field managers as well as the Lee County grounds personnel from the respective facilities will help police these issues. Please help us keep these facilities in the kind of conditions we’d all like to find them upon our arrival.
Practice Fields / Batting cages
Practice fields are for infield and outfield practice only.
Use batting cages for BP … Batting cages will be open for use at JetBlue Quad cages, City of Palms Stadium, PDC/Player Development Complex and Terry Park, with the following guidelines:
- You supply the baseballs and the arms.
- Children are not permitted inside the cage areas – no exceptions.
- No metal spikes in any cages.
Note: At JetBlue, the cages next to the stadium are not open. You may use the cages in the Quad field area. At Lee County Sports Complex, the Minor League cages are not open; you may use the cages at the stadium.
Parking at all sites
Please park in the designated areas for participants.
At JetBlue, use the West entrance off Daniels Parkway and bear to your left at the first intersection. Parking is on the Westside grass parking lot; the paved area is reserved for handicapped parking. There is an entrance to the stadium and for all the fields on the backside of the stadium. If you park on the East side, it will be a long walk to the diamonds.
At Terry Park, the best site is the parking area off the first-base side of Field 4. Enter off Terry Street on the west side of Terry Park. There is a single entrance to the Terry Park fields, and cars are not allowed near the fields. Parking near Field 3 is available; however, there is no entrance to the field there and there is no security for that lot.
At the PDC / Player Development Complex, please park in the designated areas outside the fencing.
At Lee Health Sports Complex (formerly Lee County Sports Complex) please abide by posted parking signs.
SECURITY issues … Please remember to lock your cars with your valuables in the trunk. Please do not leave computers, cameras, wallets, phones, etc., on the seats in a locked car. That is simply an invitation to someone to break the window and help themselves.
First Aid
In case of injury, see or send someone to the Concessionaire, who will alert the Site Manager, who has access to a First Aid kit, an AED and communication available for the trainers, EMS, etc. Or CALL 708-925-2987 (Bill Fear) or 330.352.2171 (Tom Giffen).
Alcohol
Please do not bring Alcohol into any of the sites; it is prohibited at playing sites, except by license. Violation can lead to players and/or a team being dismissed from RHWS. This includes parking lots.
Teams are responsible for their spectators. Too many incidents involving alcohol in the stands and in the dugouts have led to the ban on coolers at the playing sites. Our Concierges and security folks will not allow coolers to be brought into the field sites.
Spikes on concrete, yikes
Please do not walk on stadium concrete (inside stadium fences) with metal spikes (change shoes in the dugout). Players wearing spikes on the concrete will be asked to remove their shoes at that spot. Players refusing are subject to game sanctions.
Liquids, water
Containers for water will be available in each dugout on all fields.
At most sites we have changed the water setup to coolers and cups. Please do NOT use the Gatorade containers for personal drinks or towels – obviously, that contaminates the filtered water we use.
Some bottled water will be available at Terry Park; please do not share with spectators. The Concession Stands will carry bottled water for spectators.
If containers are empty, please contact the nearest staff member or call Bill Fear at the RHWS headquarters at 708-925-2987 or the site field manager listed on the phone sheet issued to each manager.
Ice
Ice will be available at the venues for injured players only thru the Site Manager or the concessions stand.
Managers/teams are instructed and expected to supply their own ice for their pitchers.
Coolers / ice chests
Players will be allowed to bring small personal coolers that hold 2-3 drinks, nothing more.
Spectators are prohibited from bringing any coolers into any of the facilities. There is an exception with regard to medical necessities, i.e., diabetic conditions. Please be prepared to offer documentation.
Tobacco
Smoking is prohibited in the dugouts, on the fields and in the area behind the dugouts at the non-stadium fields. Smoking is prohibited in the stadiums. Please be considerate of others when smoking. Chewing tobacco is prohibited on the fields and in the dugouts.
Warming up
The best place to get loose is in the outfield, both doing stretching exercises and throwing. Please do not warm up in front of the dugouts as it wears out the grass.
Pitchers may use the bullpen mounds to get ready to play; please only use the mounds that have been uncovered by the grounds personnel.
On all fields, please keep equipment bags on the tracks or in dugouts, not on the turf.
Soft toss
Please restrict soft toss drills to the batting cages and to mats designed for it. Do not practice soft toss into the chain link fences. Soft toss with Wiffle Balls is fine in the outfield prior to games.
Batboys
Batboys must be cleared through the Roy Hobbs office, and batboys must adhere to the updated Roy Hobbs Batboy Policy, which prohibits batboys under 16-years of age. See page 24 of this program.
Scorekeepers
Guidelines for scorekeepers is also on Page 24. Scorekeepers must stay in dugout unless called out by umpires during a break in play.