Baseball at Central Park

Organized baseball in Ashland began

when the Ashland Colonels, a minor

league team, played at Armco Field

from 1939-42. Games then moved to

Central Park and, in 1955, Ashland

joined the Little League program.

The two original fields were known

as CP-1, a large diamond where older

boys and men played, and CP-2, a

smaller field which was used for

younger boys and softball games.

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Babe Ruth League baseball started

in 1957 & Junior American Legion

baseball in 1959. Hundreds of boys

were on teams here every summer.

Eventually, more than a dozen of

them received pro baseball

contracts. Don Gullett, Drew Hall,

and Brandon Webb, and umpires

Charlie Reliford and Greg Gibson

went on to have successful Major

League Baseball careers.

Dedicated August 17, 2017.