Home Runs for Heritage
Heritage Field has come a long way since the 1950s, when a rudimentary ball field with a couple of benches and a chicken-wire backstop was carved out of abandoned farmland on the east end of campus.
Today, it has one of the best playing fields in the Ohio Athletic Conference, and the facilities around it have steadily improved. Just a few years ago, an 8-foot-high outfield fence was installed, and the 2006 season saw the debut of permanent bleachers.
But one thing about Heritage Field hasn’t changed in 50 years: There’s still no press box.
While our rivals’ ballparks, like John Carroll’s Schweikert Field and Otterbein’s Fishbaugh Field, have been upgraded with new press boxes in recent years, Heritage Field’s “press box” is nothing but a wooden shack with a beat-up scorer’s table that sits behind the backstop. It’s an eyesore, and it obstructs the view from our new bleachers.
For the last few years, the Baldwin-Wallace College baseball alumni have been raising money to build a new, modern press box facility with a team meeting room and training table, a recruiting office, and a concession stand and restrooms.
This year’s Home Runs for Heritage campaign raised $4,165 by rallying dozens of B-W baseball alumni, parents and fans to pledge a donation for each home run the Yellow Jackets hit during the 2008 season.
If you missed your chance to join the campaign, you can make an “off-season” donation to the Heritage Field fund at any time of year by sending a designated gift to B-W’s Development Office.
Thank you for supporting the Home Runs for Heritage Campaign!
