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Summer Speaker Series: Sandhills and Sandlots In-Person
Sandhills and Sandlots: The Amazing Story of Rushville’s Modisett Ball Park by Jeff Barnes - Baseball is a favorite sport in Nebraska, especially in Rushville with a world-class stadium and a connection to Micky Mantle. The panhandle town of Rushville loved and played baseball like most Nebraska communities. Unlike all others, it was the recipient of a beautiful ball field from the state’s biggest rancher and the host of a Major League baseball school and try-out camp, whose students included a Nebraska boy who struck out Mickey Mantle. Barnes tells the fascinating story of Rushville’s 130 years with baseball and how residents past and present came together in 2014 to rebuild Nebraska’s own “field of dreams.”
Free, no registration required. Sponsored by Humanities Nebraska.
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 13, 2022
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room A
- Audience:
- Adult Young Adult / Teen
- Categories:
- Arts & Culture Literature & History