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Mike Lansing Field
Mike Lansing Field is a stadium in Casper, Wyoming. It is primarily used for baseball. It was the home field of the Casper Ghosts minor league baseball team from 2002 to 2011, of the Casper Cutthroats summer-collegiate baseball team from 2012 to 2014, and of the Casper Horseheads of Independence League Baseball from 2018 to 2022. It is home to the Casper Oilers American Legion Baseball team, and the Casper Spuds of Independence League Baseball. It was built in 2002 and holds 2,500 people. The field is named after Wyoming native and former Major League second baseman Mike Lansing. A career .271 hitter, Lansing played nine years in the majors for the Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox. Lansing Field was one of the ten ballparks included in a 2010 ''USA Today'' article about "10 great places for a baseball pilgrimage", which noted the highly "intimate" character of the park due to its unusual combination of a small grandstand and surrounding "wide-open space" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper, Wyoming
Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the List of municipalities in Wyoming, second-most populous city in the state after Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to the development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field. Casper is in east central Wyoming, on the North Platte River. History Casper was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, in an area that attracted European settlers during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon Trail, Oregon, California Trail, California, and Mormon Trail, Mormon trails, where several nearby ferries offered passage across the North Platte River in the early 1840s. In 1859, Louis Guinard built a bridge and trading post near the original ferry locations, allowing overland travel to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
