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Locke Field

former baseball field in the US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6665354 ↗
Source-derived summary

Locke Field was a baseball field located in Gainesville, TX on Interstate 35; it was home to the Gainesville Owls for a brief period of time. It has also been used for UIL games over the years. In 2015, it was demolished to make way for an apartment complex.

Appearance by Elvis

On April 14, 1955, Elvis Presley, before he became a household name, performed a concert at Locke Field in Gainesville.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Locke Field” as former baseball field in the US. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 1955—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Locke, Field and former can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former baseball field in the US. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6665354. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 1955.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Locke Field” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.