HCP #056 - Patty Evans: Building Oak Cliff Sandlot, Protecting the Culture, & Letting the Game Be Fun

Patty Evans didn’t grow up playing baseball. Years later, after running a hyper-competitive men’s league team and walking through a season of personal loss, he found himself drawn to a version of the game built on community, not standings. That idea became Oak Cliff Sandlot. Patty talks about the early days of handing out cut-and-paste flyers, the first pickup game that unexpectedly drew 40 strangers, and how a simple invitation to “bring a glove, bring a friend, play baseball,” has grown into one of Oak Cliff’s most beloved neighborhood fixtures. We get into what it takes to protect a culture as it scales, the quiet discipline of keeping things unstructured, and why Oak Cliff Sandlot has become a place for adults to show up, belong, and play without pretense.