This Little Piggy … didn’t eat sugar beets.
Sticker Stadium, a diamond in the rough.
Sugar beets and molasses have been major players in the humble beginnings of Sticker Stadium. In October 1926 the Johnstown/Milliken Great Western Sugar Factory opened as the Johnstown Molasses Desugarizing plant. Many sugar factories, in the area, built recreation fields for their laborers and families to use. This field was built by the Johnstown factory in the 20’s or 30’s. Some of the area factories sponsored baseball teams during the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s, such as, the Milliken Cabeleros, Greeley Grays, Ft. Lupton Hawks, Brighton Rams, and Ft. Collins Eagles. Sticker Stadium played its part in history of turning “sugar into diamonds” and the “Sugar Beet Baseball League.”
Besides its connection to the sugar beet industry, this field had a well-known reputation for growing goatheads and was nicknamed Sticker Stadium. When the Thompson Rivers Parks and Recreation (TRPR) district was organized in 1994, the board members and other local citizens began the grooming process to rid the field of its stickers. Over the past 25 years, TRPR has transformed Sticker Stadium into the “diamond” it is now. Today’s athletes, young and old. are able to play here with maybe only a memory of the stickers, but you never know … a goat head could still be lurking somewhere in the outfield.
Congratulations to Jbullfrog62 on your homerun, FTF.
This Little Piggy ... didn't eat sugar beets.
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