Fleming Stadium and the North Carolina Baseball Museum

By Byron Bennett | April 11, 2020
A long shot of the exterior view of the Fleming stadium

It also houses the North Carolina Baseball Museum, located on the stadium ground past the third base grandstand. According to Chris Epting’s Roadside Baseball: The Locations of America’s Baseball Landmarks, Fleming Stadium was erected in 1938 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, with the stadium’s official dedication on June 29, 1939. When it opened, the…

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Ocala’s Gerig Field – A Former Spring Training Minor League Gem

By Byron Bennett | November 29, 2015
A view of the Gerig Field

Gerig Field was located in what is now the Martin Luther King, Jr., Recreation Complex, located at 1510 NW 4th Street in Ocala, Florida. The ballpark was constructed in 1936 at a cost of approximately $100,000 with funds from the Works Progress Administration. Gerig Field was named in honor of John Jacob Gerig, the then-mayor of Ocala who…

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