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The ballpark was known historically as Fairchild Stadium after the adjacent Fairchild Park city recreation area and nearby World War II Fairchild Aircraft manufacturing plant. It played host to many games in the legendary original Carolina League , and appears momentarily in Ron Shelton 's 1988 film homage to the minors, " Bull Durham ." Current Major League Baseball stars who played for the Burlington Indians include Bartolo Colon , the Los Angeles Angels pitcher who won the 2005 Cy Young Award , and Manny Ramirez , Most Valuable Player in the Boston Red Sox 2004 World Series championship. Historic greats who once made Fairchild Stadium their home field include another Red Sox legend, Luis Tiant , and longtime New York Yankees pitcher and coach Mel Stottlemyre . Also, Chicago White Sox Player Jim Thome played for the Burlington Indians. The park was also the site of the eight-hour and 15-minute, 27-inning marathon between the Burlington Indians and Bluefield Orioles on June 24-25, 1988. The WBBB-AM radio play-by-play call of that game by Indians' announcer Richard Musterer stands as the longest continuous single-game solo broadcast in baseball history. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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