 The baseball press box and home-plate stands at Borleske Stadium, Aug-2013. |
 Bleachers down the first-base side also include the football press box. |
 The view from in front of the baseball press box. Workers are transforming it back into a football field. |
This is the main field for Whitman College athletics, dedicated in 1940 to Raymond Borleske, class of 1910, who served as a coach for the school until 1947.
With Major League expansion in 1969, the Northwest League expanded as well, and they settled into Borleske Stadium for 15 years. For a decade, the franchise was a San Diego Padres farm club, and Borleske Stadium became Tony Gwynn’s first professional home field, among others.
The field, which is still used for both baseball and football, saw a resurgence with the arrival of the Walla Walla Sweets, a college summer team. The Sweets get their name from the sweet onions that put Walla Walla on the agricultural map.