As Union Omaha COO Matt Homonoff leads the way toward the concourse of Werner Park, he makes one simple request: keep an open mind.



Walking through the front gate, it’s impossible to see anything other than a nice minor league baseball stadium. It’s a sunny afternoon, and the grass has a healthy sheen on either side of the infield diamond. Two groundskeepers are going about their maintenance of the field, dodging a quartet of wooden stakes with pink ribbons on the end.



“If they would have just left those up,” Homonoff says with a shake of his head, “you’d see the dimensions of our field.”



Starting next spring, Werner Park, home to the Omaha Storm Chasers — the Triple-A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals — will also host the USL’s Union Omaha. While the number of MLS and NWSL clubs that kick a ball in a baseball stadium outfield is minimal (one in each league: New York City...