Whether you know it as Lanphier Park or Robin Roberts Stadium, this ballpark is one
of the more famed ballparks of the Midwest. Built in 1925, this ballpark has
gone through some tremendous changes over the years to what it looks like today
and has hosted everything from Class D to Triple-A baseball as well indy leagues
and even collegiate summer leagues as it does today. The ballpark was renamed
Robin Roberts Stadium after its favorite son... Hall of Famer Robin Roberts
who grew up here and attended Lanphier High School. Throughout it all, this ballpark
stands tall as one of the jewels of Springfield Illinois. We will look back
to its past days when it was a wooden ballpark playing in the Three-I League
and to the more recent era aluminum era when it served proudly as a Triple-A home
for the St. Louis Cardinals and as the home base for today's Springfield Sliders.
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