Baseball in Evansville: Booms, Busts and One Global Disaster

[Jason Svoboda]

One of my former managers wrote a book about baseball in Evansville. For those of you that are readers and love baseball, give it a look.

https://amzn.to/2Hm1S2j

Book Description: Baseball exploded in Evansville after the Civil War. Early clubs like the Resolutes, Blues, Brewers, Hoosiers and Blackbirds played, built ballparks, struggled financially and suffered scandals until the early 1900s. A near tragic event fueled the 1915 construction of Bosse Field, now the third-oldest professional ballpark in operation and the host to Major League Spring Training and the filming of A League of Their Own. After World War II, college baseball returned after lying dormant since the 1920s. In the late 1960s, a local entrepreneur attempted to build a third major league. When he failed, the city ascended to the minor leagues' highest level. Join sportswriter and Evansville native Kevin Wirthwein as he recounts baseball's illustrious history in the River City.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Kevin forgot to mention something to me which ties back into ISU. The man in the middle is Lester Clinkscales, the pops of good ole Sherard. Neat little six degrees of separation type of thing.

 

[4Q_iu]

One of my former managers wrote a book about baseball in Evansville. For those of you that are readers and love baseball, give it a look.

https://amzn.to/2Hm1S2j

Book Description: Baseball exploded in Evansville after the Civil War. Early clubs like the Resolutes, Blues, Brewers, Hoosiers and Blackbirds played, built ballparks, struggled financially and suffered scandals until the early 1900s. A near tragic event fueled the 1915 construction of Bosse Field, now the third-oldest professional ballpark in operation and the host to Major League Spring Training and the filming of A League of Their Own. After World War II, college baseball returned after lying dormant since the 1920s. In the late 1960s, a local entrepreneur attempted to build a third major league. When he failed, the city ascended to the minor leagues' highest level. Join sportswriter and Evansville native Kevin Wirthwein as he recounts baseball's illustrious history in the River City.

lotta good baseball in the Pocket City; had MiLB, MLB had their way, Bosse Field would be a shell, a new ballpark was key to Don Mattingly and Evansville landing a SAL team, Mattingly opted for a managing career after the city refused to support a new ballpark on the Ohio