West Michigan Whitecaps Rename Stadium
The stadium that has been known as Fifth/Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, Michigan will have a new name for the 2021 season.
The West Michigan Whitecaps announced on Tuesday that the stadium they ve called home since 1994 will change over to LMCU Ballpark in conjunction with a new 10-year agreement with Lake Michigan Credit Union.
They join their neighbors to the east, the Lansing Lugnuts, as teams who have changed stadium names this offseason. The Lugnuts changed their stadium name from Cooley Law School Stadium to Jackson Field back in September.
Both the Whitecaps and the Lugnuts have been moved up to Advanced-A in the Midwest League for the 2021 season. The Whitecaps will remain a Detroit Tigers affiliate, while the Lugnuts have moved to an Oakland A s affiliate.
Henry Aaron (pictured at the Baseball Hall of Fame Ceremony), one of the greatest baseball players of all time passed away on Friday morning at the age of 86.
Aaron was Major League Baseball s home run king with 755 career homers from his retirement in 1976 until Barry Bonds broke the official MLB record in 2007. Aaron remains the game s all-time leader in runs batted in and total bases. And is third all-time in games played behind Carl Yastrzemski and Pete Rose.
Hammerin Hank, as he was called, played most of his career with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves before finishing up with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976. He broke Babe Ruth s home run record famously in 1974 with a homer off of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing.