One warm Friday evening, I drove out to a ballpark in a farm field south of Hastings — home of the Miesville Mudhens — to experience a Minnesota tradition: "town ball." The vibe: It's "about as close ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (FOX 9) - The lineup is set for the 2025 FOX 9 Town Ball Tour. Local perspective FOX 9 is back on the road for the eighth season of the Town Ball Tour this summer. We lead off this ...

Things were going well for Lima in the spring of 1888. Just how well was detailed on March 3, in the Lima Daily Democratic Times, which listed the city’s treasures, beginning with “an oil field that ...

It’s a tradition like few other places in the country: generations, from teenagers to men sliding into middle age, showing up at the town park to play baseball. Bluffton player Logan Pultju connects ...

The town ball season, a Minnesota baseball tradition more than 100 years in the making, has played down to the State Amateur Baseball Tournament. Gaylord, Hutchinson, Brownton and Glencoe are the ...

MERRILLVILLE -- Town Ball chairwoman Carol Kalmar looked out her window Saturday afternoon, saw the heavy fog and worried. "We were afraid it would make a difference with the evening (attendance)," ...

FOX 9 is back on the road for the ninth season of the Town Ball Tour this summer, starting on June 10. Here's this year's lineup: FOX 9 will broadcast live from the ballparks starting at 5 p.m., with ...