Danville Stadium
Baseball stadium in Danville, Illinois
40°06′35″N 87°37′54″W / 40.109593°N 87.631788°W / 40.109593; -87.631788
DMTDanville Warriors (MWL) (1970–1976, 1982)
Danville Dans (PL) (1989–present)
Danville Stadium is a baseball stadium in Danville, Illinois, located at 610 Highland Boulevard. [1]
Danville Stadium is currently home to the Danville Dans of the collegiate summer Prospect League. The ballpark was formerly home of the Danville Warriors, which was a Class A minor league baseball team in the Midwest League. Originally built in 1946, the park has a capacity of 4,000 people. Selected scenes from the 1992 movie The Babe were filmed here.
References
- ^ "Danville Stadium is Rich in History".
- Bill Franz, Bob Puhala, Lyndee Jobe Henderson, Illinois Off the Beaten Path - Page 117, Globe Pequot, 2007, ISBN 0-7627-4413-8
- Brent P. Kelley, The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes - Page 374, McFarland & Company, 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0875-8
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