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Can a trip to the College World Series be monetized at the level of $20 million?

If so, Oklahoma State gets a new ballpark.

On Monday night, as they watched the Cowboys baseball team beat Arizona 1-0 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska, OSU athletic director Mike Holder hosted several prospective donors.

Each of Holder’s guests, he says, “has the capability” of providing the naming-rights donation that would result in the start of the process of building a new ballpark in Stillwater.

Holder estimates the cost of a new park — which, for the most part, already has been designed — at about $40 million.

“To get the naming rights,” Holder said, “it’s 50 percent” — or $20 million.

“If someone would step up and make that big gift, I think the momentum would be critical,” Holder said. “I think others would want to get involved.

“But just because someone has the ability and loves OSU athletics, that doesn’t mean they’re going to write (the difference-making check). That’s a whole new stratosphere of commitment. It’s hard to raise that kind of money.”