Old baseball field

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This is an old baseball field in Perry. It was built by the WPA back in the 1930's I believe at the same time they built the football stadium. The football stadium is still in use but the baseball stadium has fallen into disrepair. Lots of trees and vegetation growing up in the bleacher area, the dugouts are filled in and the bathrooms are destroyed with no roofs.

I would love to see this old stadium refurbished and put back into some kind of use but it won't happen unless a benevolent benefactor donated a lot of money to do it.

Sorry for the poor pics but I just had my Iphone on me.

https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/dani ... -perry-ok/

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Great old site-thanks for sharing. It's amazing that the football stadium is still there and functioning. Maybe you'll have to thank your blessings for that! Good luck.
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The baseball field is on the south side of the football field. Look on a satellite/aerial view of Perry, Ok and look to the north and east side of town along 177 highway. The west wall of the baseball field is made of the same sandstone as the rest of the stadium. That wall became unstable decades ago and it would have required lots of money to fix. They took part of it down when they put the new dressing room in for the football stadium. The rest of the wall is still there and as far as I know, it's stable. I think it was just that north end that was the issue.

I don't know if the wall was the only reason they stopped using it or not. The city built new fields on top of the old dump 30 years ago or so but I think they'd stopped using the old baseball field before then.

If I every win one of those big lottery's, I'd love to put some money towards fixing this old field up.
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