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The Dans again set a new stolen base record at 164 .
Zach Huffins ( Arizona Western ) sets a Prospect League record with 44 stolen bases .
2019 The Dans finished with a 40-21 record , the most wins in team history . Coach Eric Coleman recorded his 200 th career victory with the Dans .
Dans pitchers struck out 583 batters , breaking their old league record from 2017 . They also set the records for runs scored ( 483 ) and an on-base percentage (. 417 ).
2020 The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the 2020 season before it started .
2021 The Dans make the playoffs for the 22 nd time in their 33 seasons .
76 Years of Baseball History
It all began in 1945 . Robert “ Kish ” Bookwalter , a local attorney and entrepreneur , led a group of Danville businessmen to convinced Branch Rickey to build a stadium for a Dodgers farm team in Danville . The stadium was built at ighland Boulevard and 9th street , and is estimated to have cost $ 60,000 to build .
he first game played in Danville Stadium history was on May 8 , 1946 – a 2-1 win by he Danville Dodgers over the Springfield Brownies . Here are some other special ates in Danville Stadium history ...
947 : The Brooklyn Dodgers – featuring Jackie Robinson , Pee Wee Rese , Duke nider and Gil Hodges – came to Danville and played an exhibition game against heir local farm team . A crowd of nearly 6,100 watched Brooklyn defeat Danville 14- . Also that year , the Harlem Globetrotters played a game on a court set up on the tadium ’ s infield grass .
954 : Danville Stadium became home to two teams . In addition to the Giants minor eague team ( called the Dans ), Andy Cohen and his independent Danville Boosters egin a 19-year partnership with the new stadium .
or the next 17 years , the Stadium would not host a team with MLB affiliation . That hanged in 1971 when the Danville Warriors became a Milwaukee Brewers farm eam in their second season .
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Danville Stadium as it appeared in 1946 .