Reliable, Trustworthy Reporting, Capturing The Heartbeat Of Our Community
Reliable, Trustworthy Reporting, Capturing The Heartbeat Of Our Community
In baseball's golden age, an elite ballpark drew MLB clubs to Nebraska
Baseball town • An advertisement for the first Milwaukee Braves baseball school in Rushville's Modisett Ball Park published in the June 10, 1954, Sheridan County Star newspaper.
Gene Leahy didn't like what he saw. Rushville's baseball field was one of the finest in Nebraska, thanks to the generosity of two bachelor brother ranchers. But the diamond saw little action.
So, Leahy - big brother to Frank, Notre Dame's legendary football coach - convinced the Milwaukee Braves in the mid-1950s to host an annual summer baseball school in this Sandhills town of only 1,200 residents. Teens and young men traveled hundreds of miles to attend.
"It was the thrill of my lifetime to realize that Rushville was to have the school and that our boys, so far out in the sticks, would get b...
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