The Joplin Blasters, the newest team in the independent American Association, are prepping for their first regular-season game scheduled for Thursday night at historic Joe Becker Stadium. (more…)
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Public hearing planned on Joplin ballpark funding
Proposed public funding of Joplin’s Joe Becker Stadium renovations for an independent American Association team will be debated at a public hearing next Monday. The proposal calls for $9.3 million in upgrades to the surrounding area and the historic ballpark, which once hosted Minor League Baseball. The city would pay for $4 million in improvements, […]
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark / Oklahoma City Dodgers
Let’s begin with the bricks: 480,000 of them were used in the construction in the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, home of the Oklahoma City Dodgers (Class AAA; Pacific Coast League). Small wonder, then, that the stadium is nicknamed The Brick. FAST FACTS Opened: April 16, 1998 Capacity: 13,066 seats Dimensions: 325L, 400C, 325R Surface: Grass Owner: […]
Roberts meeting the Mets in heaven
Ruth Roberts, who in the course of a long songwriting career wrote several popular baseball songs, including “Meet the Mets” as part of a contest for a New York Mets anthem in 1961, passed away last Thursday. She was 84. Roberts was a songwriter for a living; she wrote other songs that was recorded by […]
Rascals to honor Maris, the True Home Run King
It’s the 50th anniversary of Roger Maris’s legendary 61-homer season, and the River City Rascals (independent; Frontier League) are honoring the former Yankee and Cardinal great with a bobblehead proclaiming him the True Home Run King. Maris’s accomplishment, already memorialized in film and the subject of memorials this season at Yankee Stadium, grabbed the attention […]