Horlick Field

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Horlick Athletic Field
Horlick Field
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Horlick Field
Former namesNorth Side City League Park
City League Park
League Park
Location1648 North Memorial Dr.
Racine, WI 53203
Coordinates 42°44′30″N87°48′03″W / 42.74155°N 87.80096°W / 42.74155; -87.80096
Public transit Bus-logo.svg Ryde Racine
OwnerCity of Racine
OperatorCity of Racine
Capacity 5,000
SurfaceNatural Grass
Construction
Opened1907 (Approximate) as North Side City League Park
October 19, 1919 as Horlick Athletic Field
Construction cost$250,000 Bleacher Upgrade in 2006/07
ArchitectWalter Dick
Tenants
Racine Raiders (GDFL) (1953–present)
Racine Legion (Ind.) (1919–1921)
Racine Legion (NFL) (1922–1924) [1]
Racine Tornadoes (NFL) (1926)
Chicago American Giants (1945)
Racine Belles (AAGPBL) (1943–1950)
Racine Malted Milks (WIL) (1909–1915)

Horlick Field, located on the north side of Racine, Wisconsin, in the United States, is a 5,000-seat football stadium and a baseball park enclosed within stone walls and chain fences. The land for the field was donated by William Horlick, the inventor of malted milk. [2] It was designed in 1907 by Walter Dick, who also designed the North Beach Beach House.

Football has been a part of Horlick Field's history since 1919. It was the home for the Horlick - Racine Legion, [3] [4] a member of the NFL from 1922 to 1924, and the Racine Tornadoes, [5] an NFL team in 1926. Now the Racine Raiders, a minor league team in the Mid-States Football League, call Horlick Field their home.

Teams from the high schools and local leagues play their regular season games in the baseball diamond, which is the site for local tournaments and championship games. The park has been the home of the Old Timer's Athletic Club softball tournament for over three decades. The Racine Belles, immortalized in the film A League of Their Own , called Horlick Field their home while the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was in existence.

In 1945, the Chicago American Giants of the Negro American League hosted several games at the stadium. [6]

Horlick Field has hosted 99 drum and bugle corps shows through 2013. Between 1962 and 1978, the stadium hosted 57 drum and bugle corps shows, an average of almost 3.5 shows a year. [7]

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References

  1. "Official website of the Racine Legion Football Club".
  2. Drummond, Margo (1994). "The Horlick Mausoleum". A Walking Tour Guide: Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wisconsin. Racine, WI: Preservation-Racine, Inc. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
  3. Welcome To Horlickville!
  4. "Official website of the Racine Legion Football Club".
  5. "Official website of the Racine Legion Football Club".
  6. "Retrosheet Boxscore: Chicago American Giants (CAG) 5 Memphis Red Sox (MEM) 0". www.retrosheet.org. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  7. Karls, Alan R. (2014). Racine's Horlick Athletic Field: Drums Along the Foundries. Charleston, SC: The History Press. Archived from the original on 2014-06-09.
  8. Lieffring, Christina. "Horlick football field going to artificial turf, funded by $1M from Unified's community service fund". Journal Times. Retrieved 2021-07-19.