West's game at Evansville's Reitz Memorial will be played at Bosse Field, an old baseball stadium that is currently used by a Minor League Baseball team called the Evansville Otters. The Maroons travel east to Evansville to take on the Tigers on August 26th, at 7 P.M.
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Cool Facts about Bosse Field
- Bosse Field opened on July 17, 1915
- It is the third oldest ballpark used for professional baseball on a regular basis in the country, surpassed only by Fenway Park (1912) in Boston and Wrigley Field (1914) in Chicago.
- From 1921 to 1922, Bosse Field was used as a football stadium and was home to the Evansville Crimson Giants of the NFL.
- In 1991 the stadium was used by Columbia Pictures for game scenes in the movie A League of Their Own.