Baseball in Lincoln: Home Runs & New Horizons
by Ken Hambleton • photos by Tom Tidball Baseball grew in Lincoln in 2025, and there is no end in sight. Nebraska won its second consecutive Big Ten baseball tournament, and the city started its...
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Baseball Town
by Ken Hambleton Baseball is the king of spring in Lincoln again. After four runner-up conference finishes in more than 100 years of college baseball in Lincoln, Nebraska tore through the Big Ten Conference tournament...
Still a Baseball Town
by Ken Hambleton started with a red leather ball and quickly became the most popular game in town Games on Sundays were not allowed until the 1930s, but most fans ignored the law and risked...
A New Youth Baseball Mecca
by Ken Hambleton The idea is simple and often repeated. As W.P. Kinsella wrote in Field of Dreams, Build it and they will come, Jeff Maul and a host of partners are going to live...
Baseball, Softball and Lincoln
by Ken Hambleton Baseball, softball and Lincoln are synonymous. From the Haymarket Park, voted the best field in the American Association for 21 years, to the Doris Bair softball fields and Den Hartog and Sherman...
Cornhusker State Games
by Dave Mlnarik The Cornhusker State Games, held annually in mid-July, is one of the nation’s largest multi-sport athletic festivals with some 70 different sports conducted at more than 50 different venues, primarily in Lincoln...
Lincoln Baseball
by Ken Hambleton, photography by Tom Tidball With a bag of peanuts in your lap, a cold drink in one hand and a scorecard in the other, just like that, you become part of more...
Enjoying a Saltdogs Game… On and Off the Field
By Rama Tidball The Lincoln Saltdogs are the Star City’s very own professional baseball team. They are the defending champions of the Central Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, an independent minor...
Knocking It Out of the Park: The Saltdogs and Haymarket Park
Once considered part of the “Great American Desert,” Lincoln today is a flourishing oasis for business and culture. The city was founded as the village of Lancaster in 1859 by a group of prospectors hoping...
Lincoln Baseball
Molly George Hit Hard, Run Fast, Turn Left The City of Lincoln lies in the heart of America. Surrounded by small towns and farmlands, people in the city and across the state pride themselves on...
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