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Wesley Barrow Stadium

Wesley Barrow Stadium is a 650-seat baseball stadium located in the Pontchartrain Park section of New Orleans, Louisiana.


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23rd Street

23rd Street Grounds, a former Chicago, Illinois baseball park used during the late 19th century

Adam Benjamin Metro Center

It is one of three NICTD electric train stations in Gary, and serves the Genesis Convention Center and the U.S. Steel Yard baseball park, home of the Gary SouthShore RailCats baseball team.

Baltimore Light Rail

Beginning in the late 1980s, Governor William Donald Schaefer (a former mayor of Baltimore) pushed for building a transit line along this corridor, motivated in part by a desire to establish a rail transit link to the new downtown baseball park being built at Camden Yards for the Baltimore Orioles.

Campbell Field

Campbell's Field, a 6,425-seat baseball park in Camden, New Jersey, United States

Ebbets

Ebbets Field, a now-demolished baseball park in Brooklyn, New York

Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park

The baseball park was used for some key scenes in the 1990 movie Mr. Destiny starring James Belushi and Linda Hamilton.

Heather Nabozny

She is the head groundskeeper of the Detroit Tigers baseball park since 1999, becoming the first female head groundskeeper in the history of Major League Baseball.

Robison

Robison Field, a former Major League Baseball park in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

San Antone / The Great Divide

"San Antone" / "The Great Divide" is a limited edition 7" vinyl single by alternative country band Whiskeytown, released by Geffen Records in 2009 for Record Store Day. Both tracks are previously unreleased recordings from the band's 1996 "Baseball Park" sessions.

The Hilltop

Hilltop Park, an early Major League Baseball park in New York City

Wade Stadium

Wade Stadium is a baseball park located near the intersection of Grand Avenue and 34th Avenue West in the West Duluth neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota.

Wheeling Island Historic District

Notable non-residential contributing properties include the Exposition Building (1924), Thompson United Methodist Church (1913-1915), Madison School (1916), firehouse (1930-1931), the Bridgeport Bridge (1893), the Aetnaville Bridge (1891), "The Marina," Wheeling Island Baseball Park, and "Belle Island Park." It includes the separately listed Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Harry C. and Jessie F. Franzheim House, and John McLure House.

Yesterday's News

An earlier version of the song - recorded during the band's "Baseball Park" sessions - was released on the 1998 reissue of the band's first album Faithless Street.