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Danville Stadium
Location	610 Highland Blvd.; Danville, Illinois 61832; United States
Coordinates	40°06′35″N 87°37′54″W / 40.109593°N 87.631788°W
Public transit	DMT
Capacity	5200
Opened	1946
Tenants
	Baseball; Danville Warriors (MWL) (1970–1976, 1982); Danville Dans (PL) (1989–present)

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Danville Stadium is a baseball stadium in Danville, Illinois, located at 610 Highland Boulevard. ^[1]

Danville Stadium is currently home to the Danville Dans of the collegiate summer Prospect League. The ballpark was formerly home of the Danville Warriors, which was a Class A minor league baseball team in the Midwest League. Originally built in 1946, the park has a capacity of 4,000 people. Selected scenes from the 1992 movie The Babe were filmed here.

Bill Franz, Bob Puhala, Lyndee Jobe Henderson, Illinois Off the Beaten Path - Page 117, Globe Pequot, 2007, ISBN 0-7627-4413-8
Brent P. Kelley, The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes - Page 374, McFarland & Company, 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0875-8

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-| tenants           = '''Baseball'''<br>[[Danville Warriors]] ([[Midwest League|MWL]]) (former)<br>[[Danville Dans]] ([[Prospect League|PL]]) (1989–present)
+| tenants           = '''Baseball'''<br>[[Danville Warriors]] ([[Midwest League|MWL]]) (1970–1976, 1982)<br>[[Danville Dans]] ([[Prospect League|PL]]) (1989–present)
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 ==References==
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+{{refbegin}}
 *Bill Franz, Bob Puhala, Lyndee Jobe Henderson, ''Illinois Off the Beaten Path - Page 117'', Globe Pequot, 2007, {{ISBN|0-7627-4413-8}}
 *Brent P. Kelley, ''The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes - Page 374'', McFarland & Company, 2000, {{ISBN|0-7864-0875-8}}
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 {{Prospect League Ballparks |state=autocollapse}}
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 [[Category:Mississippi-Ohio Valley League]]
 [[Category:Defunct Midwest League ballparks]]
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