The new ballpark in Ontario, CA, that will be home to the Dodgers’ A-ball affiliate (now still playing in Rancho Cucamonga) will be called ONT Field, after the nearby international airport of Ontario. Wednesday, the Ontario Baseball club unveiled the name of their future ballpark. During a press conference in the Ontario Convention Center, the…
In late August 2024, historic Jay Littleton Ball Park burned down to the ground. Since then, local baseball fans are trying to raise funds to rebuild the ballpark. For nearly ninety years, Jay Littleton Ball Park was a beloved part of Ontario, California until a few screetchy pukes (pardon my French) set the wooden grandstand…
Two years ago, Matt Burns and his son visited all Major League and Minor League ballparks in their home state California. The planing was to visit sixteen ballparks in eighteen days in the Carolinas in 2020 but the corona virus threw a spanner in the works. But now, Matt and his dad are making up…
After the Knoxville Smokies left Knoxville in 2000 to move into their current Smokies Ballpark, the city of Knoxville is now looking to get the team back with a brand new ballpark. The new ballpark is part of a Old Town Knoxville upgrade that is expected to cost $142 million. The new ballpark is projected…
Today in 1956, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley sold the home of the Dodgers, Ebbets Field, to real estate developer Marvin Kratter. Looking back, this was the omen of the Dodgers’ move after the 1957 season. The sale to Kratter included a three-year lease, with an additional two years to be added in January, to…
In today’s episode of Baseball Shorts, we pay attention to a phenomenon that Red Sox fans will surely know. It is a phenomenon that could be found in Fenway Park. Duffy’s Cliff was a ten-foot-high mound that formed an incline in front of the left-field wall from the day the park opened in 1912 until…
In this episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to the song “The cheap seats” of the American country music group Alabama. The song is the third track of their album Cheap Seats. The song “The cheap seats” is completely about minor league baseball. It is about a town not big enough for MLB…
In this episode of Ballparks around the world, we pay attention to the home of the Regensburg Legionäre (with 700 members, the biggest baseball club in Germany), the Armin-Wolf-Arena. The ballpark was constructed from September 1997 through July 1998. On September 8, 1996, the members of the Bavarian Baseball Federation held a special meeting in…
In this episode of Ballparks around the World, we pay attention to one of those little gems you hardly can find nowadays. Montpellier in the state of Vermont is home to such a little gem: Recreation Field. Constructed in 1940 and currently the home of the Montpellier Mountaineers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League….
In Ballparks around the world, it is time to pay attention to the final venue of the 2017 World Baseball Classic: Petco Park in San Diego, home of the San Diego Padres. This modern ballpark is situated right next to the famous Gaslamp Quarter. The construction of the ballpark started in 2000 and the ballpark…
