Duane Banks Field

An entrance to Duane Banks Field, Aug-2013.

The seating bowl, as viewed from shallow right field.

Looking out toward the Hawk perched in center field.

• Location: University of Iowa campus, Hawkins Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa
• Opened: Unknown
• Home team: Quad City River Bandits, Midwest League (one game in 2008, three games in 2019); Iowa Hawkeyes, Big Ten Conference
• Capacity: 2,000 (approx.)

On April 30, 2008, the Quad City River Bandits, who had renovated their field in Davenport in 2004 and included a levee and flood gates as part of the construction, were forced to play an off-site game. It wasn’t because the field was flooded, but rather because the stadium was inaccessible thanks to the lack of levees elsewhere in the Mississippi River city. That day, before a crowd of about 200, the River Bandits defeated the Lansing Lugnuts, 4-3, at this field, giving this Big Ten facility a brief turn as a professional ballpark. The field reprised the role for a three-game series in May 2019, also against Lansing.