Sunday, April 22, 2012

Duane Banks Field, University of Iowa

This field looks like it is rather new, or at least newly renovated. As it is a nice little field, new seats. There are stadium seats a couple of dozen rows up from the back stop. Along the baselines are bleachers. They have a nice stone pressbox above the stands. The field is natural grass. The outfield fence is just that from the lines to the power alleys. After that there is padding on the fence. The scoreboard is your basic baseball scoreboard, but with some ads on it.






The parking is a mess, the park between the football and basketball courts. I had to park in a commuter lot a long ways away, since the Team USA wrestling finals were in the basketball stadium today.
The bottom part of the stadium, concourse and stuff looks really old and small.  They had scorecards, pocket schedules and schedule posters. The bottom of the stadium is painted yellow. There is a plaque in the park for former Hawkeye pitcher Cal Eldred who helped pay for the installation of lights.



Their ballpark menu is really either a dog, brat or nachos. The dog wasnt very good. They have one tiny little old looking concession stand over on the thirdbase side next to their equally tiny bathrooms.
Penn State had their late football coach Joe Paterono initials on the side of their hats.
First time ive ever seen the cheer squad performing at a ball game. Plus their mascot was there.  Former Kane County Cougar, Dusty Napoleon is a coach with the Hawkeyes.
The game itself was a good game the Hawkeyes would win 4 -2 over the Nittany Lions. Iowa's Sasha Kuebel got into the eighth pitching well.

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