About the park
Youth ball in the Sixth Ward since 1980.
Schneider Park
The park carries the name of Rev. Clemens Schneider, a much-loved pastor at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church and a military veteran. It was dedicated as Schneider Park on May 10, 1970, a thank-you from the parish for what he gave to this community, especially its young people. He died on June 9, 1982.
More than a field
This is a place of gathering.
The Gumbo Festival, turkey shoots, fishing tournaments, and yellow ribbon rallies welcoming soldiers home from the Gulf War were all here.
Our Lady of Prompt Succor holds its Family Day and Easter egg hunt on these grounds. Families gather here for reunions and birthday parties. Charity events begin here. Some are booked a year in advance. Others happen because someone made a phone call the week before.
And through it all, it is still the same ground where the games are played.
Children learn teamwork here. Adults learn it again, working the same stand season after season. Somewhere along the way it became a place where people show up for one another.
They gave us a field to play on. What came with it was so much more.
Who we are
Chackbay Ballpark Inc. is the Louisiana nonprofit behind Schneider Park, with 501(c)(3) status. It is a community ballpark built and kept going on concessions and the people who show up to do the work.
Every year we bring youth softball to hundreds of local children. Our partner, the Sixth Ward Independent Athletic Club, runs football and cheer.
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church owns the land. Chackbay Ballpark Inc. operates the park. The field itself is named for Nolan Adams, Sr., who spent over 43 years building it and retired in 2023. The Knights of Columbus Council 8743 dedicated it in his honor.
Our mission
Chackbay Ballpark Inc. runs youth softball at Schneider Park.
The purpose of this organization is to develop, promote, and administer community spirit, social contact, and economic development by creating a support organization primarily to support recreational activities throughout the Sixth Ward area of Lafourche Parish.
From our founding charter, filed February 11, 1998.
Our board
- Randy AdamsPresident
- Bobby BoydVice President
- Brandon AdamsSecretary
- Frannie GuillotTreasurer
- Valerie SepulvadoDirector
The 1994 sign
A Cajun kid in a straw hat riding an alligator, painted on a wooden board by Kevin Joseph Daigle and signed “K.J.D. ’94.” It has been at the park longer than most of the players have been alive.