Mike Lansing Field is a

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. It is primarily used for

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. It was the home field of the Casper Ghosts

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baseball team from 2002 to 2011, of the Casper Cutthroats summer-collegiate baseball team from 2012 to 2014, and of the Casper Horseheads of

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from 2018 to 2022. It is home to the Casper Oilers American Legion Baseball team. It was built in 2002 and holds 2,500 people. The field is named after Wyoming native and former Major League second baseman

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. A career .271 hitter, Lansing played nine years in the majors for the

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and

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. Lansing Field was one of the ten ballparks included in a 2010 ''

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'' 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" at its location on the banks of the

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. The ballpark's souvenir shop was known to visiting baseball fans for sales of the team's unusual glow-in-the-dark cap. Mike Lansing Field replaced a

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/ park known locally as Crossroads. It is located just south of the

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across Poplar Street from the Casper Planetarium.

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