This is a shot of Urbaska Field, corner of 17th and Poly, taken from Klindt Field. It could use some lights and a higher backstop to keep more balls in the park. Fred cashed in his chips way too soon.
Good crowd for the Mustangs. They played 6 straight games at Dehler Park in early July, won 5 of them, and drew good crowds each night, usually around 3500 or more. They may well be on their way to a new attendance record.
A pretty good crowd for the Royals and Scarlets game too. This rivalry has been going on since the mid-70s.
When the Legion teams went off to the Twin Cities, and the Mustangs were losing games in Utah, we went to Emmanuel Baptist Field to watch the Lobos, and to Pirtz Field to watch the Cardinals and Blue Jays. Billings is a baseball city.
Someone just hit a long home run for the Lobos against the Mavericks of Miles City. I thought they played in the AA Legion ranks. I will look into the matter. I did note that everybody played with a wooden bat. Emotion rules!
This guy was taking pictures from centerfield a few days ago at Dehler Park with a really long lens. Not sure who he was doing this for. If I see him again I will ask.
A nice new statue of Ed Bayne, long-time almost legendary coach for American Legion baseball teams here in Billings. Two of his players sponsored the statue so naturally they got into it as well. The new plantings just outside of Dehler Park are coming along well. The face on Bayne looks a little more like him than the one on the McNally statue.
A view down 27th St from the ballpark looking south. A fair number of foul baseballs end up in this street and parking lot. Please keep that in mind between 7 and 10pm on nights when they play baseball at Dehler Park, which is most nights, come to think of it.
One of the coach/groundskeepers getting Pirtz Field ready for the evening's doubleheader with Glendive.
Scarlets and Royals teeing off against each other at Dehler Park. They have been playing at Pirtz Field earlier in the year.
This is a shot of Urbaska Field, corner of 17th and Poly, taken from Klindt Field. It could use some lights and a higher backstop to keep more balls in the park. Fred cashed in his chips way too soon.
Good crowd for the Mustangs. They played 6 straight games at Dehler Park in early July, won 5 of them, and drew good crowds each night, usually around 3500 or more. They may well be on their way to a new attendance record.
A pretty good crowd for the Royals and Scarlets game too. This rivalry has been going on since the mid-70s.
When the Legion teams went off to the Twin Cities, and the Mustangs were losing games in Utah, we went to Emmanuel Baptist Field to watch the Lobos, and to Pirtz Field to watch the Cardinals and Blue Jays. Billings is a baseball city.
Someone just hit a long home run for the Lobos against the Mavericks of Miles City. I thought they played in the AA Legion ranks. I will look into the matter. I did note that everybody played with a wooden bat. Emotion rules!
This guy was taking pictures from centerfield a few days ago at Dehler Park with a really long lens. Not sure who he was doing this for. If I see him again I will ask.
A nice new statue of Ed Bayne, long-time almost legendary coach for American Legion baseball teams here in Billings. Two of his players sponsored the statue so naturally they got into it as well. The new plantings just outside of Dehler Park are coming along well. The face on Bayne looks a little more like him than the one on the McNally statue.
A view down 27th St from the ballpark looking south. A fair number of foul baseballs end up in this street and parking lot. Please keep that in mind between 7 and 10pm on nights when they play baseball at Dehler Park, which is most nights, come to think of it.
One of the coach/groundskeepers getting Pirtz Field ready for the evening's doubleheader with Glendive.
Scarlets and Royals teeing off against each other at Dehler Park. They have been playing at Pirtz Field earlier in the year.
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