Adelanto Stadium

Adelanto Stadium
Location	Adelanto, California
Former names
Mavericks Stadium (1991–2005), Stater Bros. Stadium (2007-2014), Heritage Field at Maverick Stadium (2015-2016)
Tenants
High Desert Mavericks (1991–2016), High Desert Yardbirds (2017-2019)
Capacity
3,808

Adelanto Stadium is a ballpark located in Adelanto, California. It was the home stadium of the High Desert Mavericks of the California League & later home to the High Desert Yardbirds of the independent Pecos League.

Adelanto Stadium in Adelanto, CA, was the home of Adelanto affiliated baseball from 1991 through 2016, ending the tenure as Heritage Field at Stater Bros. Stadium. After that, the High Desert Mavericks effectively moved from the California League to the same-level Carolina League.

In one of the world’s windiest spots, the ballpark repelled big-league parent clubs because it was so hard on pitchers. During the 2016-2017 off-season, the Texas Rangers engineered a deal to get their High-A players out of Adelanto by getting Minor League Baseball to move two Cali franchises to the Carolina.

Opened as Mavericks Stadium, it drew the Riverside Red Wave north into the Mojave Desert. The first California team to draw more than 200,000 in one season nevertheless had a troubled stay. It never recognized the city's 2006 naming-rights deal with Stater Bros. supermarkets, later selling field naming rights to Heritage Victor Valley Medical Group. In 2016, Adelanto City Council terminated the lease over its dollar-a-year price - but an injunction left lease and team in place for what proved to be one last season. The city eventually settled the resulting lawsuit by agreeing to pay the erstwhile Mavs $3.8 million. Both naming contracts ended with the departure, resulting in the municipal name.