Lawrence–Dumont Stadium

Lawrence–Dumont Stadium is a baseball stadium in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is located on the northwest corner of McLean Blvd and Lewis Street, along the west bank of the Arkansas River, in the Delano neighborhood of downtown Wichita.The stadium holds 6,400 fans and primarily used for baseball. It is the home field of the Wichita Wingnuts independent baseball team, and also home to the annual National Baseball Congress World Series, the annual North American championship of the NBC, an organization of 15 amateur and semi-professional baseball leagues operating in the United States and Canada. It has been played at this stadium annually since 1935.HistoryThe stadium is named for Charles S. Lawrence, former Wichita mayor from 1933 to 1934 who died on September 20, 1934 after convincing the city to move the park within the city limits. The construction of the stadium was a WPA project; Works Progress Administration which employed workers during the depths of the Great Depression. Blue laws earlier prohibited baseball within the city and games were played on Ackerman Island in the middle of the Arkansas River. That stadium burned in 1934. Ray "Hap" Dumont had promised to hold semi-pro games in the new ball park (which was built with WPA help. He paid Satchel Paige $1,000 to bring the Bismarck Churchills to the stadium to play in the first NBC Championship.