Bosse Field
 |
|
| Location | 23 Don Mattingly Way Evansville, Indiana 47711 |
|---|---|
| Owner | Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation |
| Operator | Evansville Otters |
| Capacity | 5,181 |
| Field size | Left field – 315 ft Center field – 415 ft Right field – 315 ft |
| Surface | Bermuda Grass |
| Construction | |
| Opened | June 17, 1915 |
| Construction cost | $65,000 |
| Tenants | |
|
Evansville Otters (FL) (1995–present) List of previous tenants |
|
Bosse Field is a baseball stadium located in Evansville, Indiana. Opened in 1915, it was the first municipally owned sports stadium in the United States and is the third-oldest ballpark still in regular use for professional baseball, surpassed only by Fenway Park (1912) in Boston and Wrigley Field (1914) in Chicago.
It is the home field for the professional minor league Evansville Otters of the independent Frontier League, as well as high school and American Legion games, and in the past hosted spring training for the Detroit Tigers, college baseball, high school, college, and NFL football, college soccer, and concerts. Five Baseball Hall of Fame members played for Evansville teams at Bosse Field during their minor league careers, including Chuck Klein, Hank Greenburg, Warren Spahn, Bob Uecker, and Bert Blyleven. The historic stadium was also used in 1991 by Columbia Pictures for filming numerous game scenes in the movie A League of Their Own.
...
Wikipedia