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Danville Stadium

Coordinates: 40°06′35″N 87°37′54″W / 40.109593°N 87.631788°W / 40.109593; -87.631788
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40°06′35″N 87°37′54″W / 40.109593°N 87.631788°W / 40.109593; -87.631788 Danville Stadium is a baseball stadium in Danville, Illinois. It is home to the Danville Dans of the collegiate summer Prospect League, and former home of the Danville Warriors, an A baseball team of the Midwest League. Built in 1946, it holds 4,000 people. Selected scenes from the 1992 movie The Babe were filmed here.

References

  • 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