StadiumSpark
Walk-up music for youth baseball and softball
StadiumSpark turns your phone and a Bluetooth speaker into the ballpark sound system for your kid's team. Every player gets their own entrance song and their own announcement. When they step up, you tap one button.
Built for the parent or coach who runs the music, standing behind the backstop with one hand on a phone and one eye on the field.
In closed beta. StadiumSpark is being tested with real teams during the 2026 fall season and is not yet in the app stores. If you want to follow along or ask about testing, write to info@stadiumspark.com.
Everything you need to run music at a game stays free, during the beta and after it. Here is what that means.
One big button
The game screen is built to be used without looking. A large card shows who is up, with their jersey number and name, and one button plays them. A strip underneath shows who is coming, so you always know what is next. Swipe through the order, or tap ahead to whoever is actually walking up.
Stop it just as fast
The card wears the team's colors and counts the seconds, and the button you pressed to start turns red.
A song for every player
Everyone on the roster gets their own entrance song and announcement, with the volume set per player.
Trim it to the moment
Drag the window to the few seconds you actually want, anywhere from five up to sixty.
Announcements in a real voice
The phone reads it aloud, or record your own. Names it says wrong can be spelled out phonetically.
Today's order, set early
Type it in, paste it from a message, or photograph the coach's lineup card and let the app read it.
Music between innings
Repeat it, stop it after a while, and fade out rather than cut off when the field needs to be quiet.
Hand the team to another parent
Export the whole team as one file. Players, clips, recordings and colors travel together.
Run more than one team
Each squad keeps its own roster, its own songs and its own colors.
Why this exists
I'm a baseball dad, and this started as a favor to my own kid's team. For a couple of seasons it was a folder of numbered song files on my phone and a little script I'd written to make the announcements, and I'd be standing behind the backstop trying to find the right track with one thumb while also trying to watch the game.
Youth baseball has become an expensive thing to be part of. There are the travel team fees, the tournament entries, the bat that somehow costs more than a week of groceries. Plenty of it is optional, and honestly not much of it seems to make the kids love the game any more than they already did. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that most of them just want to play.
Walk-up music is one of the few parts that is purely for fun. It costs nothing to let a kid hear their song when they come up to bat, and it tends to be the thing they are still talking about in the car on the way home. That felt like the wrong place to put a monthly bill.
Everyone who has tried StadiumSpark so far is a baseball parent, and most of them came to it already frustrated by something else, either fiddly to use one-handed at a game or priced like a service when all they wanted was a tool. They are the reason the play button is as big as it is, the reason you can just swipe the card instead of digging through a menu, and the reason it will never show you a score or an inning. It isn't a game tracker. It's the music.
What it will cost
Everything you need to run music at a game stays free.
A song and an announcement for every player, the batting order, the game screen, the music between innings. That is the whole job on a Saturday morning, and it is not going to move behind a paywall later.
The extras will be a one-time purchase, and it isn't going to be a subscription. Youth baseball is seasonal. You use this hard for ten weeks in the spring, ten in the fall, and not at all in between. Paying every month for something that sits idle most of the year is a bad deal, so I'm not going to ask you to.
Your music stays yours
There is no account and no sign-up. Your songs, your recordings and your players' names stay on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no analytics or crash reporting in this version. The privacy policy says exactly that.
A note on music
StadiumSpark plays audio files you already have. It does not include any music and it does not stream from a subscription service. Playing music out loud at a game is a public performance, and whether a license is needed depends on your league and your venue. Ask your league.