Saving History By Bringing Back History

As most people around here are familiar with, Bosse Field was the site of the movie " A League of Their Own." The movie starred Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell. Bosse Field served as the home field for the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

A little more about the AAGPBL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-American_Girls_Professional_Baseball_League

http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm

Although it would be nice for the league to return and Evansville have a team someday, currently no women's baseball league or museum exists. There is a huge open hole for Evansville to fill with these proposed ballfields.

One of the proposed leagues and tournaments that will play at these fields is a girls and women's softball league and tournament. If you were a director for a women's softball league, where would you want to play? At 8 regularly designed baseball fields at Wesselman Park or at 8 vintage MLB Parks where the last two teams square off at historic Bosse Field, where the sign " Home of the Racine Belles" still stands?



If seems pretty obvious to me that if we market 8 MLB fields at Kleymeyer with the last two teams playing at Bosse Field, we are going to attract every single softball tournament that is possible. Yes, we would have to work around the Otters schedule, but there are plenty of dates to go around, especially in the spring time.

To further attract more leagues and tourists, Bosse Field must set up a women's baseball museum that commemorates the AAGPBL. There is plenty of demand from tourists to want to see old Rockford Peaches and Racine Belles uniforms, pictures, and history. The museum would also promote Bosse Field as a great and historic place for girls and women to play baseball/softball.

With this ballfield project, we have the opportunity to save both Roberts Stadium and Bosse Field. You see, someday, some year the city will inevitable explore building a new downtown ballfield again due to Bosse Field being unable to be renovated. We will then be in the same situation we are in now with a new sports venue being built and city officials wanting to tear the old one down.

If we act now, we can find a useful purpose for Bosse Field both with the Otters and with softball and baseball championships so that when the new field is built we can play our new A baseball team on the same day the softball/baseball championships are going on, and then play the Otters on the other days.

We have the opportunity to save history by bringing back history.