Bosse Field, Evansville, IN 2015
by Robin R. West
(Evansville, IN)
Location: 23 Don Mattingly Way Evansville, Indiana 47711
Bosse Field like, almost every stadium built at the time, was born out of necessity. The previous, All Wood, stadium experienced a catastrophic failure when the East stands of the Louisiana Street Grounds collapsed and over 40 people were injured. The very next day Mayor Bosse announced the plans to building a new Ballpark which became Bosse Field which opened on June 17, 1915.
Bosse Field was one the first professional stadium to make the conversions from Wood construction to Concrete and Steel.
The original stadium didn't look as it appears today. The now brick exterior was covered with stucco and would not dawn its current appearance until renovations were performed in the 1930.
This is the third oldest baseball stadium in the United States. Bosse Field, is a baseball stadium located in Evansville, Indiana. Built in 1915, it is the third-oldest ballpark still in regular use in the United States, surpassed only by Fenway Park (1912) in Boston and Wrigley Field (1914) in Chicago.
It is the current home of the Frontier League Evansville Otters, a minor league baseball team. The Otters franchise came to Evansville in 1995 and have attracted a record number of fans for the league.1 In 2006 the Otters won the Frontier League title.
In 1991 the historic stadium was used by Columbia Pictures for game scenes in the movie A League of Their Own.2
