Features
- Baseball field: Dakota Community Bank & Trust Field (artificial turf)
- Grandstand and bleachers: 1,900 seats
- Practice area with batting cages
- Ticket booth and press box
- Scoreboard and videoboard
- Lights
- Interpretive signs: baseball history
- Concessions (not operated by BPRD)
- Restrooms: permanent
Activities
- Baseball: seasonally from April through September (gated facility)
- Garden plots: rentable
- Outdoor hockey rink and warming house
More Information
Dedicated efforts to improve the experience for players and fans at Bismarck Municipal Ballpark have been underway through phased master plans developed by user groups and Bismarck Parks and Recreation District.
- 2014: new covered grandstand with stadium seats, concessions area, restrooms, press box, dugouts, and practice/pre-game warm-up facilities ($1.3 million Get in the Game capital campaign)
- 2023: new videoboard and scoreboard
- 2025: artificial turf, batter’s eye, and renovated main gate/ticket booth
Baseball History
Bismarck has a rich baseball history. Bismarck’s American Legion Lloyd Spetz Post No. 1 started the American Legion baseball program in Bismarck in 1928. Additionally, several semi-pro leagues, including the Prairie League, have called the ballpark and Bismarck their baseball home.
The most famous baseball player to play the game in Bismarck was Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Paige broke the color barrier in baseball years before Jackie Robinson and played semi-pro baseball in Bismarck in 1933 and 1935, leading the team to the 1935 national semi-pro championship. It was indeed a moment in time for Paige, for Bismarck’s rich baseball history and for several other black players who were barred from the majors. Paige would go on to a stellar baseball career and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.
Today, the Municipal Ballpark is still in the same location where Paige played, although the ballpark was reconfigured in 1992.
