1. The Washington County public-benefit question

The September 20, 2026 Hidden Valley historical USSSA file contains 75 distinct event URLs represented by 139 division rows with exact source County = Washington. These rows record 711 team participations across Bartlesville and Dewey from 2001–2026. These are not 711 unique teams or children; repeat teams and overlapping seasons are possible. Five separate division rows reference Washington alongside other counties, and remain outside the headline totals until their primary playing venue is independently documented.

This installment is particularly testable because the City of Bartlesville has publicly described Price Fields ownership, municipal user agreements, public capital projects and a 2025 change in field operations; the October 27, 2026 records production adds signed contracts to that trail. The central question is whether citizens can reconcile public investment, private/nonprofit operators, maintenance and family access to records rather than assuming tournament revenue forecasts automatically demonstrate a community return. [S1] [S2] [S4]

2. Countywide financial, participation and officiating reconciliation

Each amount is a direct sum of named CSV division-row fields; scenario-net concessions are separately derived at three gross-margin assumptions. "Official assignment slots" means estimated assignments across games, not unique individuals. Minimum games and assignment slots preserve negative source anomalies for transparency, with an operationally plausible sensitivity case below.

Source-modeled $734,093 gross event income equals $122,543 entry fees + $407,700 gate + $203,850 concession gross. Its modeled $595,518 partial event net subtracts $125,840 modeled umpire expense and $12,735 modeled sanction fees from that constructed event-income amount. It does not subtract every cost (facility rental, staffing, merchant fees, concession merchandise, insurance, security, field maintenance, tax, debt service, refunds), and therefore is not profit. The concession margin scenarios are analyses of the same concession gross amount, not extra revenue. Likewise, the separate $312,000 gross visitor-spending model must not be added to any of these event figures without evaluating double counting.

3. Municipality and facility-level financial ledger

Analytical attribution rule: where only one Oklahoma municipality is displayed, assign its geographic name to the research table. This is not a deed search or certification of legal title. If primary government, county, tribal, school, or private ownership is independently documented, report that owner separately instead of assuming the municipality owns it. A compound label is retained intact as an unresolved facility group; no split across sites is manufactured.

3A. Washington County municipality subtotals

3B. Original facility labels—every required financial and operating metric

Cross-group event warning: the five exact facility groups contain 76 group-level distinct-event mentions but only 75 countywide distinct event URLs. One 2024 event URL appears once under the stand-alone Price Fields label and once under the compound Bill Doenges/Price label. Do not add facility event counts together to claim a larger countywide number. Divisions, participations and all additive financial figures reconcile exactly.

3C. Facility ownership and location evidence status

Price Fields: City-owned today, as expressly stated by the City. The 2016 municipal account says Washington County formerly held the approximately 50-acre site and that the City exercised an option to purchase for $1 following the 2008 capital-improvements vote; the final recorded deed date and legal description need county-clerk verification. Historical pre-transfer tournaments must not be described as occurring on City-owned land without dated deed evidence. [S1] [S2]

Bartlesville Youth Baseball and the misspelled source label "Bartlesvillle Youth Baseball" are historical event facility descriptors, not legal title reports. They are not automatically merged into Price Fields or attributed to its present operator. Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium, Price Baseball-Softball Fields names two venues in one source row and remains a facility-level unresolved group (its municipality is Bartlesville). One Mile Sports Complex, Dewey is geographic source attribution only; no primary deed or authorized operator was verified in this review. No tribal, county, school or private ownership is invented for these unverified labels.

4. Dedicated countywide modeled economic-impact and visitor-spending reconciliation

County sum check: SUM(DayImpact) = $85,135; SUM(OvernightImpact) = $226,865; SUM(TotalEconomicImpactPerEvent) = $312,000. Therefore $85,135 + $226,865 = $312,000. All 139 included division rows reconcile on each of the three arithmetic checks: 0 day formula errors; 0 overnight formula errors; 0 day-plus-night errors at source precision.

4A. Economic impact by municipality, reconciling to county sum

4B. Economic impact by exact source facility label, reconciling to county sum

Do not double count: facility rows roll into their municipality; municipality rows roll into Washington County. The county total is one sum, not the sum of separately displayed subtotal blocks. Five cross-county division rows representing 297 additional team participations and $196,911 source-modeled spending have been held outside the county sum until a primary Washington County venue is verified; placing them in Washington based on a listed secondary facility would overstate the verified geography.

4C. Exact source rates and stay assumptions—preserved, not replaced by a flat rate

For each division row, the underlying formulas are:

Rather than assume every tournament has the same overnight stay, these figures preserve the raw dataset's DayTripRate, NightTripRate, DayStay and OverNightStay values. Washington County contains day-trip rate values $25 and $85; overnight rate $0 or $289; DayStay scenarios of 1, 5, 25, 32 and 54; and OverNightStay of 0, 1, 2 or 3. Large league stay/day counts are modeling choices requiring validation, not evidence of actual lodging nights or visit days.

Worked 2001 Price Fields division-row example: eight 14AAA teams, day rate $85, day stay 1, overnight rate $289 and overnight stay 2. Day spending = 8 × $85 × 1 = $680; overnight spending = 8 × $289 × 2 = $4,624; source row's modeled total = $5,304. This row comes from the original 2001 event URL and pre-dates the City's described later land purchase; neither the calculation nor the linked USSSA event URL certifies guest counts, hotel nights, geographic origin, or real business receipts. [S15]

4D. Incremental benefit test—not a revenue stacking exercise

Economic benefit must be evaluated against a measured counterfactual: how much spending by nonresident visitors entered the defined local economy that would otherwise not have occurred, net of substitution/displacement, leakage and public costs. Team entries already may fund the event and admissions/concession purchases could be included in travel budgets; adding them atop the modeled day/overnight figures without an itemized expenditure survey risks overlap. The calculation does not establish actual incremental impact, hotel stays, jobs, sales taxes, general-fund receipts, taxpayer return on investment, or facility profit.

5. Data-quality investigation: league admissions and impossible negative assignments

League-gate sensitivity: 21 records, representing 11 distinct event URLs, have LeaguePhase = League Play. Their gross gate model totals $269,900, or 66.2% of all Washington County modeled gate. These same division rows carry $134,950 gross modeled concessions and $34,900 modeled day-trip visitor spending. Many league rows use multi-day assumptions (e.g., 25, 32 or 54 DayStay values) that cannot substitute for proof of tickets sold each day, actual paid spectators, or out-of-town visitor counts. Recorded registration dates and fee schedules, not hypothetical full-season admissions, are needed to verify money.

Four zero-team anomalies: one 2017 Price Fields division and three 2018 Dewey One Mile league divisions record zero participating teams alongside source values of −1 minimum game per row and negative umpire assignments/pay. They aggregate −4 games, −7 assignment slots and negative modeled umpire cost of $280 (the negative dollar figure is a mathematical artifact, not a payment). The tables above intentionally preserve raw source sums of 1,708 games, 3,146 assignment slots and $125,840 umpire costs so the source can be audited. A simple nonnegative clamp only on those four invalid rows gives 1,712 games, 3,153 assignment slots and $126,120 modeled costs, and reduces constructed partial event net from $595,518 to $595,238. This sensitivity is not a claim about events actually held and is not silently substituted in the main ledger.

It is also necessary to verify no-show or canceled tournaments, TeamsEntered = 0 records, repeated event URLs, interannual venue aliases and 2026 proposed versus completed events. Any apparent difference between source estimates and formal financial records first calls for matching operator, entity, cash custodian, reporting period, date and revenue category—not an allegation of nondisclosure.

6. Public land, infrastructure, private operators and youth access: dated municipal record

6A. Washington County to City property transfer—the $1 deed-verification question

The City states that Price Fields stood on a roughly 50-acre tract previously owned by Washington County, developed in stages with contributions from user groups, families, volunteers, community groups and businesses. Its 2016 project account says that after approval of a 2008 capital-improvement sales-tax renewal, the City purchased the complex from Washington County for $1 to support publicly financed reconstruction; the first quad was completed in 2013 with $1 million in voter-approved funding, with additional phases planned. That is the City's published historical account, not a substitute for a certified deed, title schedule or proof that every acre had the same restriction. Compare county conveyance instruments, Commission and Council minutes, deeds, reversion conditions, and related project funds before concluding the exact legal obligations. [S2]

6B. Historical operations: Richard Kane YMCA → 4F Sports → Arrowhead

The City describes previous operations involving the Richard Kane YMCA, then a January 2023 Council-approved one-year 4F Sports management agreement covering league and tournament coordination, and a February 21, 2025 Arrowhead contract after the prior arrangement expired in December 2024. These dated administrative decisions show changing operational assignments; they do not prove that any organization kept unauthorized tournament money, violated an agreement or made false financial filings. The actual annual allocation of maintenance, field-use rights, concession rights, competitive tournament access, scholarships, affordability and safety duties depends on the individual contracts and any amendments. [S3] [S4]

The City's February 2025 public notice describes spraying/fertilization, irrigation and restroom obligations, a two-year waiver of capital-improvement requirements, and reimbursement of actual operator electric bills subject to annual ceilings of $20,000, $15,000 and $10,000 over three years. The $45,000 sum is a maximum contract cap, not proof the City disbursed $45,000. The signed 2025 agreement supplied in the City's October 27 response confirms a nominal $10/year base lease, according to the archived document review. The effective rent amount must be interpreted together with operator obligations, taxpayer-provided improvements, actual City spending, and benefits to local families. [S4]

6C. 2026 $1.2 million turf allocation, distinct from 2013–2021 capital spending

Bartlesville reports that the February 10, 2026 electorate approved five bond and tax propositions and that $1.2 million of the parks program is planned for artificial turf on four Price Fields baseball fields, intended to extend field availability and support tournaments. The February 11 release listed election tallies as unofficial pending certification, and approved project funding is not a signed construction contract, final cost, vendor invoice or verified post-construction tournament benefit. [S5] [S6] [S7]

The October 27 City records production includes Price field capital improvements.xlsx, previously reviewed as 12 asset rows totaling $7,299,601.54 in recorded acquisition-cost entries, covering historic 2001–2021 acquisitions. This asset register should be checked against booked cost, capitalization, fund transfers, actual construction payments and useful-life accounting. It is not an audited cumulative expenditure ledger, nor may the 2026 $1.2 million projected investment simply be added to all asset and construction authorizations without evaluating duplicates, dates and financing sources. No post-2026 completion is presumed.

6D. Public benefit needs a measurable community-program denominator

A City may legitimately support organized leagues and tournament travel alike. To evaluate collaboration with schools, nonprofits, leagues, businesses and nearby municipalities, report documented local registrations, fee tiers, need-based scholarships and waivers, residency preferences, fair scheduling, public park access, girls' softball opportunities, ADA accessibility, volunteer support, youth safety training, field closure and maintenance records, and available field-hours. Differentiate charitable or member organizations from city government, and separate City operating support from nongovernment funds and visitors' transactions. The City's public tourism/economic-development budget belongs to its own authorized fund and planning framework; a general claim that tournaments raise tax collections requires actual fiscal measurement, not a multiplier. [S16]

7. Oklahoma Open Records Act request: documented submission, response and remaining questions

The existing October 16 request sought ownership/deeds and all operator agreements; authorization, meeting minutes and procurement; public appropriations, capital payments, bills and reimbursements; facility rents, fees, schedules, gate/concession rights; program accessibility, scholarships and user-group documentation; inspections, safety/insurance; annual reviews and evidence of community benefit.

Records-response evaluation: This is substantial contract production—not a comprehensive financial reconciliation. The City supplied a signed lease and prior user agreements, but the currently reviewed five-file set does not independently demonstrate historical operator cash collections by source event, completed financial reviews, electricity payouts, user-access outcomes or a final title chain. Not receiving an item in this five-file response does not establish that the item is nonexistent, was destroyed, or was unlawfully withheld. Targeted follow-up should ask whether its search is complete, and request the categories still missing, electronic field-booking and accounting records, clarification of agreement inspections and any charged production cost. No new records request was sent for this article.

8. Municipality collaboration and separate county/City governance

Bartlesville: Council authorization, City Clerk records, City parks staff, finance/budget, legal counsel, Arrowhead, 4F Sports, the Richard Kane YMCA and local youth program leaders have separate responsibilities. Report who owned the land in the relevant year, who authorized and performed capital construction, who received and accounted for registration/concession money and who owed the contractual maintenance and reporting work. Dewey: distinguish One Mile Sports Complex's listing in the source dataset from a city deed or direct municipal grant. Request an owner/lessee and facility-operator record before comparing operator funds to City of Dewey records. Nearby public-school or university fields within multi-county events should not be presumed to be municipal property.

Washington County: county clerks and commissioners hold different records from Bartlesville government. The City reports a past 50-acre transfer from the County for $1, but county deed and resolution copies are required to verify its date, description and consideration. County Commission public revenue and municipal tax/project appropriations are different books and cannot be blended merely because they share a county line. [S2] [S11]

9. Government audits, district attorney jurisdiction and official court-record boundaries

9A. City municipal audit—2024 is a separate opinion

The City of Bartlesville reported on April 23, 2026 that Council had accepted its financial statements and independent audit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 at the April 21 meeting. Its published summary described an unmodified opinion with no proposed adjustments, management comments or findings for that FY2024 report, while noting its FY2024 audit was delayed and subsequent-year audits were on a separate timetable. A city-wide financial audit is not an audit of every individual tournament director, gate, volunteer program or private operator bank account. Before financial claims, inspect the audited statement notes, component units, contract balances and fund schedules, and avoid assuming the FY2024 audit certifies later 2025–2026 operating results. [S8] [S14]

9B. Oklahoma State Auditor's Washington County audit—county government, not Bartlesville

The Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector's Washington County FY2022 financial and single audit (transmitted April 4, 2025) is a county-government document. The audit states unmodified for the Oklahoma statutory regulatory-basis presentation, but adverse relative to U.S. GAAP because the statutory reporting basis is materially different from GAAP. It also describes internal-control/federal-award compliance matters at the County level. Neither the dual-opinion accounting-basis distinction nor county federal-program findings establish a Price Fields user-group violation, tournament embezzlement, or any defect in the City's separate audited accounts. Specific county audit findings should be tied to their actual programs and dates before public characterization. [S9]

9C. District attorney and official litigation: jurisdiction and findings control

Washington County identifies William Drake as its District Attorney. A DA's authority is tied to applicable Oklahoma laws and legally appropriate jurisdiction; the office does not automatically audit the finances of private sports organizations or decide federal civil RICO claims brought elsewhere. The County's judicial district listing is 11. Court records concerning specific Washington County transactions must be checked by exact case number, defendant or party identity, court, filing, order date and disposition through the official Oklahoma State Courts Network and/or county Court Clerk. [S10] [S11] [S12]

The historical CSV has general RicoLawsuitUrl and LeverageLawsSuitURL columns linking to research copies of litigation materials; those links are not Washington County prosecutions or final court adjudications. Federal cases about sports sanctioning or broader industry business practices require verification on the official federal docket via PACER before quoting allegations, dismissals, settlements, or judgments. For Day 14, no Washington County-specific case number and controlling court order concerning these Price Fields/Dewey records was independently verified; therefore no local lawsuit outcome, guilt or liability is asserted. If an official court disposition becomes available, log docket/case ID, exact holding, appeal status and any limitations before publishing an update. [S12] [S17]

10. Geographic exclusion register: five county-ambiguous events

Exactly 5 division rows in the September 20 CSV mention Washington County along with other counties; these total 297 team participations, $147,137 modeled gross entry fees and $196,911 modeled visitor spending. They are not included in the county or municipal numbers, and do not carry a presumed pro-rata share. Their source events reference venues in some combination of Tulsa, Washington, Osage, Rogers and Cherokee counties. The independent event-site schedule, reserved field, actual bracket venue, and controlling primary host are required for an event-level allocation.

Primary-venue allocation rule: one tournament event belongs to the county of its documented primary facility. Mixed-site events are kept in the unresolved statewide queue; do not attribute their aggregate gate or visitor spending to Washington solely because Price Fields appears among other venues. Preserve source-provided events while validating original brackets, official assignments and booking agreements, and retain the audit trail when the primary venue is later confirmed.

11. Reproducible methodology, source columns and interpretation

1. Version control: authoritative AIUSSSA - HVIOG 9-20-2026(6).csv, September 20, 2026 baseline. Filter raw County exactly equal to Washington; place any comma-delimited county list that contains Washington into the unresolved watchlist. No geographic split allocation; no estimated primary owner assigned by name alone.
2. Rows/events: one raw division record per row; unique event count from nonblank EventUrl strings. TournamentID is effectively division-record-specific in this extract and is not a substitute for a distinct tournament count. If a single event spans two facility labels, report an overlap warning.
3. Team and entry fees: SUM(TeamsEntered), SUM(TotalTeamEntryFee). Source calculations are not actual registrations or verified checks; the rate input is EntryFeePerTeam.
4. Admission and concession: SUM(TotalEventGate), SUM(TotalEventConcession); gate scenario is driven by source DailyFans, DailyAdmissionFee, TotalEventDays and intermediary TotalGateAdmissionFee. Concession scenario gross is directly from source. Concession contribution scenarios = TotalEventConcession × 0.30, × 0.50 or × 0.70, representing hypothetical margins after unspecified variable costs, not verified profit.
5. Playing/official workload: SUM(TotalMinimumGamesPlayed); SUM(TotalEventUmpires); SUM(TotalEventUmpireFees). Inputs include MinGameGuarantee, UmpiresPerGame, and UmpirePayPerGame (listed as $40 in Washington's source rows). Assignment totals are role-slots, not counts of unique paid officials; negative data anomalies flagged separately.
6. Sanctioning: SUM(TotalUSSSASanctionFees), comprising row entries for TeamUsssaSanctionFees and EventUsssaSanctionFees under source assumptions; no proof of remittances or recipient split.
7. Economic impact: each row TeamsEntered × DayTripRate × DayStay and TeamsEntered × NightTripRate × OverNightStay. Sum source DayImpact and OvernightImpact; check against source TotalEconomicImpactPerEvent stored per division row. Do not multiply that stored value again by number of divisions, events or stay days.
8. Partial event financial net: source TotalEventIncome = TotalTeamEntryFee + TotalEventGate + TotalEventConcession; source TotalEventNet = TotalEventIncome − TotalEventUmpireFees − TotalUSSSASanctionFees. Neither establishes actual net proceeds, actual concession costs, operator legal liability, or beneficial use of public funds.
9. Reconciliation: additive row and financial fields across five exact facility labels must equal their Bartlesville/Dewey municipality subtotals, which then equal the county total. Unique distinct events are nonadditive across groups when an event has more than one facility label. No double-counting of municipality and facility totals.
10. Source control and verification priority: event-level USSSA pages provide historical activity labels but may have incomplete/corrected records. Independent municipality records—deeds, bond program schedules, executed operator contracts, bid awards, user fee schedules, work orders, vouchers and tax collections—are necessary for any statement about actual public money or benefit.

12. Right of response, requested corrections and public-archive standards

The research welcomes primary records and specific factual corrections from Bartlesville and Dewey city officials, Washington County Clerk and Commissioners, Arrowhead and former field operators, the Richard Kane YMCA, independent youth baseball and softball groups, local referees/umpires, families, and tournament organizers. No private party is presumed to have received or refused an inquiry; this article makes no claim that outreach has already occurred. Documented corrections should specify a source link or copy, exact row/event URL, relevant date, field location, owning entity, contract paragraph and updated figures. Material corrections should be logged visibly with an updated date, original statement, replacement statement and source evidence. Preserve original raw labels and the source extract.

Actionable evidence requests: (1) certified 50-acre Price Fields parcel/deed and date of county-to-city $1 transfer; (2) 2001–2026 bookings, site-specific event permits and gate rules; (3) actual City rents, reimbursements and work orders tied to signed contract clauses; (4) procurement scores, historical and current users, scholarship/fee reports; (5) completed operator financial and annual performance reviews, if maintained; (6) final turf bids, purchase orders and completed expense reports; (7) Dewey One Mile deed/ownership and 2015–2019 user agreements; (8) any relevant official court numbers and dispositive orders; and (9) independent tourism/visitor surveys with net-new spending and tax data. Pursue targeted Oklahoma Open Records Act correspondence to government custodians, recognizing that a public-record request is not a blanket entitlement to all private operator bookkeeping. {A('S13')}

13. Primary-source and evidence register

Research source: local archival file AIUSSSA - HVIOG 9-20-2026(6).csv, authoritative September 20, 2026 historical dataset, fields and records specified in Section 11. City records request archive: October 16 submission and October 27 five-attachment production documented in the research collection; these files are not yet hosted at publicly verified URLs. The links below are distinct, independently accessible sources; a published city news release provides municipal statements rather than proof of all underlying cash payments.

1. S1. City of Bartlesville: Price Fields ownership, 14 fields and current contracted manager.
2. S2. City of Bartlesville: Price Fields phased renovation, historic Washington County $1 land transfer, 2016.
3. S3. City of Bartlesville: 2023 4F Sports operational agreement.
4. S4. City of Bartlesville: February 21, 2025 Arrowhead operations approval.
5. S5. City of Bartlesville: February 10, 2026 bond and tax vote; February 11 report.
6. S6. City of Bartlesville: 2026 approved bond project list includes $1.2m Price Fields artificial turf.
7. S7. City of Bartlesville: 2026 project FAQ specifies four baseball fields to receive turf.
8. S8. City of Bartlesville: City Council accepted FY2024 independent financial audit on April 21, 2026.
9. S9. Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector: Washington County FY2022 financial and single audit, transmitted April 4, 2025.
10. S10. Washington County government: district attorney office and jurisdictional guidance.
11. S11. Washington County government: elected-officials directory.
12. S12. OSCN: official Oklahoma court docket search.
13. S13. Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Open Records Act statute index, Title 51 §24A.
14. S14. City of Bartlesville: financial document archives.
15. S15. USSSA: original event record example (2001).
16. S16. City of Bartlesville: Bartlesville Development Authority and tourism budget discussion, FY2026-27.
17. S17. PACER: official U.S. federal court records, federal case verification.