The building, which is located just west of Dudy Noble Field, serves as an indoor practice area for both sports and is air-conditioned and heated.
The interior playing area measures 185 feet wide and 368 feet long, and has a ceiling height of 60 feet. The 68,000-square foot floor area accommodates a complete baseball infield within the context of a full football playing field.
Retractable batting cages, which may be lowered from the ceiling, and football goal posts are also included in the facility.
In the summer of 2017, new, state-of-the-art field turf was installed in the facility.
Also part of the Palmeiro Center is the Robinson-Galloway-Tatum Weight Room, which was added to the Palmeiro Center following the 2021 National Championship run for MSU. It is a new 7,100-plus square foot weight room adjacent to the indoor baseball field (the largest of its kind in the country) was made possible from the former players and donors.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO
Born in Havana, Cuba, Palmeiro came to the United State of America as an elementary student, and earned three letters in baseball at Jackson High School in Miami, Fla. A three-time all-America on the collegiate level, he lettered at State from 1983-85. He entered professional baseball following his junior year at MSU after the Chicago Cubs made him the 22nd player selected in the first round of the 1985 draft. He has played 18 seasons at the major league level, breaking into the big leagues in September of 1986. He is just 78 hits short of the magical 3,000-hit barrier and needs only 49 home runs to reach 600 in his career.
Palmeiro has been very active philanthropically in the professional communities in which he has played. He has volunteered at local elementary schools' reading programs, provided the means to build a youth baseball field in Texas, assisted in the ongoing development at various foster and children's homes, and worked with a national brewing company to help increase awareness of underage drinking in Hispanic markets. He has also helped the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation's Walk For Cure program during the past three years, serving as a spokesman for the program and making a $100 contribution for each home run hit.
Rafael met the former Lynne Walden of Tupelo, Miss., when the two were students at State, and they were married Dec. 14, 1985. They have two children, Patrick Ryne and Preston Conner. The Palmeiro's reside in Colleyville, Texas.