Wild Health Field

Wild Health Field
Location	Lexington, KY United States 38.065667; -84.477987
Building chronology
Built	2001
Tenants
Lexington Legends Wild Health Genomes
Capacity
6,994 (5,618 seated)

Wild Health Field in Lexington, KY, was the home of Lexington affiliated baseball from 2001 through 2019, ending the tenure as Whitaker Bank Ballpark. After that and the Coronavirus pandemic-canceled 2020 season, MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization eliminated the Lexington Legends of the South Atlantic League.

The Legends then joined the independent Atlantic League. In 2022, the Atlantic League added a second team, also based in the stadium, the Wild Health Genomes, in order to give the circuit an even number of teams.

Originally Applebee's Park, its name sponsor became Whitaker Bank in 2011.

The pandemic killed a 2020 exhibition game with the Bowling Green Hot Rods - same state, same level, different league - and the reorg killed the 2021 game by eliminating the Legends.

Bluegrass affiliated baseball dated to the 1880s but previously went dark in 1954. Lack of a stadium stalled every return effort until a group of investors pooled enough private money to build a ballpark and buy an expansion SAL franchise. Season tickets went on sale less than 14 months before the first pitch. Despite cold weather that February Saturday morning, more than 200 people were in line at 8:30 a.m. and 1,950 full season tickets were sold by 4 p.m.

Roger Clemens, trying a comeback with the Legends' then-parent Houston Astros, started the June 6, 2006, game - which drew a house baseball record 9,222.

It has a capacity of 6,994 people, seating 5,618.