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Quinn FieldType: Traditional | Size: Micro 
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| Terrain: By: SAMANTHA1234 @ | Hide Date: 08/05/2011 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 44.471 W105° 29.728 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 
This is an easy P & G, but GPS may get a little confused with the highways so close together. So if you are West bound, take the Idaho Springs exit, make a quick U turn at Starbucks and head back East. Go toward I70 East, but in .1 of a mile turn right on County Road 314, and another right and you will see the baseball fields. History of Shelly Quinn Field Idaho Springs, Colorado A man named Shellenberg owned the property where the present fields are. In the 1920s the property was improved by Mr. Shellenberg to be a baseball field complete with covered bleachers. Shellenberg was responsible for the organization of baseball in town to include teams and rules. The Idaho Springs town teams that played on the field were made up by young local men. Opposing teams would travel to Idaho Springs to play the games via the railroad. At some point Shellenberg donated the land to the city of Idaho Springs. Local memory says that the Great Depression probably caused the end of baseball on the field. After World War II the people of Idaho Springs organized and built a rodeo grounds on the site. During summer festivities like Gold Rush Days a rodeo would be held. The period in which the land was a rodeo grounds was starting in the mid 40s for a decade. The rodeo grounds had an arena with pens on the west end and grandstands along the south edge. From 1947 until 1957 Idaho Springs High School played their football games in the arena. In 1957 the State of Colorado stopped the playing of the games because of health concerns for the players. At that time the school district undertook the building of the present Golddigger field located in the central part of Idaho Springs along Interstate 70. In 1958 or 59 a man named Bob Richards who was a local mechanic and stock racer started an effort to convert the rodeo grounds into a dirt track for stock car racing. The track was short as it occupied the area which was once the arena. The stock car era lasted for four seasons. In the late sixties, around 1966 or after, an effort was undertaken to go back to using the site as baseball diamond. The field was built through local volunteer effort. A man named Boyd Quinn had an important role in this transformation as well as earlier history of this site. Boyd was an equipment operator with Clear Creek County. Boyd did the construction of the race track, did the work on present Golddigger field and did the work as well for the present baseball configuration. Thus one of the diamonds is named Quinn field. The other field, Shelly Field, was named in honor of Mr. Shellenberg. Pictured below is the stock car race at Shelly Park Speedway circa 1958 to 1962 
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