In a League of Its Own

Exterior of Huntingburg League Stadium, Jul-2003.

The seating bowl, as seen through a center-field fence knothole.

Chronological Tour: Stop 412

• Location: Huntingburg City Park, southeast of US 231 and Indiana 64, Huntingburg, Ind. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 1894 (stadium rebuilt 1991)
• Home team: Dubois County Dragons, Heartland League (1996-98), Frontier League (1999-2002); Liberation Professional Baseball League (2020); Southridge HS Raiders, Pocket Athletic Conference
• Capacity: 5,000 (approx.)

In 1991, the stadium portrayed a long-gone field in Illinois.

As of my original visit, League Stadium had no outfield advertising except that which was placed for the movie. I got some good photos by shooting through knotholes in the outfield wall, which may have been deliberately placed when the movie was made. The fence has been replaced, and some of those movie ads have now been replaced by ads for local sponsors.

Ironically, the Dubois County Dragons moved to Kenosha, Wis., for the 2003 season, and the Mammoths played at a ballpark that actually was used for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Most recently, the ballpark has been seen hosting college summer league ball. The Dubois County Bombers have played in three leagues, most recently the Ohio Valley League. In 2020, with the OVL idle because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Dogecoin, a team shut out of its inaugural season in the Pacific Association due to the pandemic, rented out the ballpark for a four-team Liberation League playing a schedule from August through October.