Foundry Field: Home of the Giants -- a place for play, a place for story, a place for community. A public/private partnership at Southeast Park, South Bend, IN.
What an amazing celebration for the groundbreaking of @foundryfield last Friday, featuring muralist Thomas "Detour" Evans, community partners, family members of former Foundry Giants, and friends from the neighborhood and across the city.
#notredame
Kristie Erickson, Marilyn Thompson, and Cat Page-Vanore proudly represented the museum at the groundbreaking ceremony for #FoundryField. The mural honoring the #FoundryGiants is outstanding! #sappymoffitt
If you’re a South Bend history buff, you may remember the Foundry Giants, a predominantly black baseball team in the 1920's. This new field will help immortalize them, and play host to the next great baseball players. @leogoldmantv has the details.
https://t.co/uGJRj0dM6P
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Friday for a high-quality public access baseball park in South Bend that’s designed to bring vitality to the city’s urban core.
https://t.co/ZxzjZP0RYa
The opening of @FoundryField in South Bend reminds of this story I did in the summer of 2020 about the history of the Negro Leagues in the area. Had a lot of fun talking to @nlbmprez for it, and thanks to @thomasminooka for the idea!
https://t.co/yEqFH6eu5C
It was a beautiful celebratory groundbreaking event Friday at #FoundryField in #SouthBendIN, sharing in #play, #story, and #community! Thank you to @socialconcerns, @bgcsjc, @IHCDA, Sappy Moffitt Field Foundation, @IamDetour303, and to all of our community partners and donors.
.@FoundryField will provide a quality public-access baseball field for children and adults in South Bend’s urban core. Come celebrate with us!
Friday, May 12, 4-6pm
Southeast Park, South Bend
https://t.co/xMWr57O09I
The groundbreaking for @FoundryField in #SouthBend is 4 to 6 p.m. Friday (May 12). Free food, games and prizes. Public welcome. Details here:
https://t.co/mcSwbDdYxT
Denver-based artist, innovator, and educator Thomas "Detour" Evans has begun work on a mural at @FoundryField telling the story of the Studebaker Foundry Giants.
See the mural up close at the Foundry Field groundbreaking, Friday, May 12 at 4pm at Southeast Neighborhood Park.
I got to spend my entire day out in the community sharing baseball with colleagues, students & neighbors…
To quote @NickMainieri, “What could be more worthwhile than building a garden with your neighbors in the middle of the place that you share?”
Come celebrate the groundbreaking of @FoundryField, a quality public-access baseball field in South Bend’s urban core, celebrating the baseball stories of our city’s marginalized communities. Free food, games, and prizes!
https://t.co/xMWr57Nska
@IHCDA @SappyMoffitt
When a bunch of grown-ups wanted to play baseball again, South Bend's Sappy Moffit League was born. That turned out to be the start of something big for kids in town with limited access to the game. They'll soon have @FoundryField to call home: https://t.co/lyrwAIVe04
Was honored to join @SeanStires’s Irish Breakdown podcast today to talk about my recent @ndmagazine story, the @SappyMoffitt league and @FoundryField project. Lots of inside baseball talk here too, literally, thinking about old times w Sean!
https://t.co/38QGGfyx6a via @YouTube
The @FoundryField project, subject of my recent story in @ndmagazine, will have its groundbreaking celebration on May 12. Looks to be a neat event—please take note if you’re a South Bend community member or are around that afternoon!