Marsh Field is a baseball field in

Muskegon, Michigan Muskegon ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Muskegon County, Michigan, United States. Situated around a harbor of Lake Michigan, Muskegon is known for fishing, sailing regattas, and boating. It is the most populous city along Lake Michigan' ...

, United States. The field has been home to many professional teams in the past, and is now used as part of developmental baseball leagues. Some notable teams to call Marsh Field home include the Muskegon Clippers, a now defunct farm team of the

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, the Muskegon Belles, an

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team for the 1953 season, the

Muskegon Lassies The Muskegon Lassies were one of the expansion teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1946 season, representing Muskegon, Michigan. The team played their home games at Marsh Field. The league, its teams, and its story ...

, an AAGPBL team that played at Marsh Field from 1946–1950, and the Outwin Zephyrs, a

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team. Currently, Marsh Field is used by the Muskegon Clippers (no relation to the previous farm team), a wooden bat college level team, the Muskegon City League, the Muskegon Big Reds baseball team, and is used as part of the Extra Innings Muskegon Fall Baseball league. Frank Barnes, a major league catcher, played two seasons of minor league baseball at Marsh Field. He later played in

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for the Yankees and the

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. He and Elston Howard were the first ever African-American players signed by the Yankees. Howard played one season at Marsh Field.

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Playmarshfield.com
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