Great Bend Bat Cats Baseball Club

All funds go to the 501c3 Great Bend Bat Cats account, and 100% of the net will go towards Al Burns Memorial Field at Veterans Park.

We are launching a Brick Fundraiser to help renovate Al Burns Memorial Field at Veterans Park.   The field is still host to some High School and American Legion baseball, and for the past three years has been the home of the Great Bend Bat Cats summer collegiate baseball team during the summer months.  The field is very near and dear to many who have roamed it since it’s inception in the 70’s.  We hope that games are played at Al Burns for another 50 years, beginning with a little facelift moving forward. You can be part of this much needed project by buying a brick with your own information (name, years, name of friend, name of son-grandson-nephew.....whatever you’d like) and become immortalized in a wall at the end of the project. Even if you’re just a baseball fan, or would love to see the field get new life, we encourage you to get in on this project!

Many of these upgrades are for the purpose for the players, and having a nicer/safer field to play on, but we haven’t forgotten about the fans.  These changes will be much more fan friendly with more space to move from either side of the stands, and the convenience of concessions in a permanent location.  Also, with netting from dugout to dugout, your view will be spectacular!  Our hopes are to raise enough to complete everything that we hope to in two phases, with Phase 1 to be completed prior to play in the summer of 2020.  The fundraiser is one that won’t go away, so we hope to continue to get more bricks sold and gain ground to complete Phase 2 prior to play in 2021.  The brick fundraiser will be found on the business website provided by Polar Engraving, as well as on FB page AlBurnsProject2020. 100% of the net goes towards the field!

PHASE 1
• New/Bigger dugouts
• More concrete walking/wheelchair routes in front of main stands via moving the backstop up
• Brick Wall 2 ½’ high from dugout to dugout, leaving room in front of
   main stands for easier access for wheelchairs/etc.

• Backstop netting from dugout to dugout.
• A 12x30 building along the first base side for climate controlled and secured concessions area/apparel room/storage area
• A 16x30 building attached to the third base dugout
for a climate controlled office/locker room/storage area

PHASE 2
• New/higher fences brought in some in each corner
of the field that will catch your eye, give it some of
its own character, and attract more players/teams
to the area
• New scoreboard

• Upgrade the hitting cages

NOTE: Completion of the Brick Wall display

If you have any comments or questions, please contact Roger Ward at [email protected]