This event starts at 6:30 pm and ends at 7:00 pm, it's located in the corner of the parking lot not far from Mulcahey Stadium, where they play baseball in the summer….
This event is timed to occur just before the start of an Alaska Baseball League (ABL) game between the Anchorage Bucs and the Anchorage Glacier Pilots. I'm not a big baseball fan, but I do enjoy going to see these summer games: The tickets are cheap (even with concessions), the games are fun, and the view from the first base bleachers is great (especially on a sunny day).
Information about the Alaska Baseball League:
The Alaska Baseball League is an amateur collegiate summer baseball league, with five teams located in four Alaskan cities. The teams include the Mat-Su Miners in Palmer, the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks in Chugiak, the Anchorage Bucs and Anchorage Glacier Pilots both in Anchorage, and the Peninsula Oilers in Kenai. The Alaska League uses wood/wood composite bats and Diamond baseballs.
Like other Summer Collegiate Baseball leagues, the Alaska Baseball League is dedicated and designed to provided minor league level competition for NCAA players that wish to continue into professional baseball. The Alaska Baseball League operates in a similar manner to a Minor League team: playing nightly in stadiums before fans, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment, and experiencing road trips between games. Like all other summer collegiate players, they are unpaid in order to maintain their NCAA eligibility, and live with host families in the same manner as Single A and Independent League players. While serving as a crucial player development team, the Alaska Baseball League has continued to push the boundaries of Summer Collegiate Baseball, including foreign players, winning many league national and international titles and bringing their own brand of baseball across the world.
Many baseball greats like Tom Seaver, Dave Winfield, Wally Joyner, Mark McGwire, Jeff Kent, Randy Johnson, and Jered Weaver, have spent summers in places like Fairbanks, Anchorage and Kenai on their road to the Major Leagues. Often thriving, sometimes just enduring, MLB Hall of Famers and journeymen alike have played in the annual Midnight Sun Game, which is played on the summer solstice each year in the middle of the night, with no artificial lights. Numerous National Baseball Congress World Series titles have been won and the league is full of incredible stories of accomplishment and travail. Careers and lives have been shaped in our farthest north state.
If you've never been to a game, stick around after the event and spend an evening watching some baseball, you might even catch a foul ball! Please note that the geocache event is rain or shine, the baseball game probably won't be. If you do decide to come to the game, be sure to bring a light coat, even if it's a sunny day, the breeze can be chilly.
Even if you don't go to the game, there are numerous caches within easy walking distance. Hope to see you there!