Monday, December 11, 2017

New Lights Coming To Dorchester Ball Field


Just in time for the 2018 baseball, softball and football seasons, we can report that new lights are definitely coming to Dorchester's Nerud Field. (Click on the picture at the right for a closer view.)

Work started in recent days, removing the half-century old lights and poles surrounding the baseball diamond, dugouts and snack shack.


The Dorchester Village Board recently applied for grants to help fund the new lighting.


This will be the first major improvements made to the town's shared football/baseball/softball facilities since 2009, when the new snack shack and restrooms were installed.


Nerud Field is named after Miles Nerud, who brought organized little league baseball to Dorchester in the 1950s.  


Nerud served as one of the founding fathers of the Seward-Fillmore-Saline (SFS) League in 1957, which is approximately when Nerud Field's original lighting was installed.


3 comments:

  1. What is happening to the old lights? Those should be placed in the museum.

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  2. Hows the press-box holding up? Is it ready for Friday Night Lights next fall?! GO BIG D!

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