Peanuts and Cracker Jacks Traditional Cache
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Peanuts and Cracker Jacks
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This cache is hidden near the historic Kokernot Field, Home of the Alpine Cowboys. Micro cache. Log only. Bring your own pen/pencil. A quick park and grab.
Kokernot Field is a baseball stadium located in Alpine, Texas. The field has been called "the Yankee Stadium of Texas" by Texas Monthly magazine.[1] An estimated 6,000 attended a 1951 exhibition featuring Satchel Paige's St. Louis Browns versus the Chicago White Sox. Future Major Leaguers Norm Cash and Gaylord Perry also played on Kokernot Field.[2]
The stadium was constructed in 1947 by Big Bend rancher Herbert Lee Kokernot Jr. for his semi-professional baseball team. Red clay for the infield was hauled in by boxcar from Georgia. Native stone quarried from the Kokernot Ranch was used to construct the outfield wall and grandstand. The Kokernot Ranch "06" brand was incorporated into numerous decorations throughout the stadium along with intricate ironwork of baseballs complete with painted threads.
The stadium was built to seat 1,400 people. Lighting was installed in 1958. Ownership of the field was turned over to the Alpine Independent School District in 1968 after Sul Ross discontinued their baseball program and semi-pro play ceased in Alpine after the 1961 season. Sul Ross' baseball program was revived in 1983. The field is currently home to the Sul Ross State University Lobos and the Alpine Cowboys of the Pecos League through a lease arrangement.
The Big Bend Cowboys doubleheader on May 17, 2009 marked the first professional baseball played at Kokernot Field in 48 years
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