Re: soccer/baseball field behind Western Pumping Station
Date: April 02, 2012 11:42PM
the league did pretty well for itself.however with the racial makeup(and no please i don't mean it bad) changing it really led the league to pretty much barely hang on.in 1990 i think it was a massive amount of rain fell on chicago and really had town of lake fields in horrible shape.they used to lite the puddles on fire to get rid of them(don't ask have read that from baseball players who played there) well they were in a partnership with brighton kelly little league.all the makeup games and there were many got played at bkll.the head groundskeeper from the white sox said there would have to be a complete tear down and rebuild costing $$$$ so town of lake was no more.the field was build on top of tanks and use had to hand mow it no lawn tractors.they had a concession stand at the bottom of the steps.so many leagues gone.bermele,town of lake,gage,ect,ect.memories.they have a site on facebook with many great pictures of the league in it's heyday.