Mike Lansing Field

Mike Lansing Field
Address 330 Kati Lane
Location Casper, Wyoming
Owner City of Casper, Wyoming
Operator City of Casper, Wyoming
Capacity 2,500 (baseball)
Field size Left Field: 355 ft (108.2 m)
Center Field: 400 ft (121.9 m)
Right Field: 345 ft (135.6 m)[1]
Surface Grass
Construction
Opened 2002
Construction cost $1.77 Million
Tenants
Casper Ghosts (2001-2011)
Casper Cutthroats (2012-2014)
Casper Oilers (2002-Present)
Casper Horseheads (2018-Present)

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, and of the Casper Cutthroats summer-collegiate baseball team.[2] It is home to the Casper Oilers American Legion Baseball team, and home to the Casper Horseheads of the Expedition League[3]. 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" at its location on the banks of the North Platte River.[4] The ballpark's souvenir shop was known to visiting baseball fans for sales of the team's unusual glow-in-the-dark cap.[5]

Mike Lansing Field replaced a sports complex/park known locally as Crossroads. It is located just south of the Casper Events Center across Poplar Street from the Casper Planetarium.

References

  1. ↑ "Mike Lansing Field". Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Casper Cutthroats open season; will it be a short tenure?", Ballpark Digest, June 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Casper Horseheads
  4. ↑ "10 great places for a baseball pilgrimage", USA Today, April 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ Matt Nelson, "Mike Lansing Field - Casper, Wyoming", The Gazette (Cedar Rapids), Aug 24, 2011.

Coordinates: 42°51′38″N 106°19′47″W / 42.860473°N 106.329712°W / 42.860473; -106.329712


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