Dubois County Bombers open season against Jackson Rockabillys tomorrow night
League Stadium’s summer began with the Bombers opening at Jackson, tying Huntingburg’s historic ballpark to a 20-team league’s new data-driven era.
Every summer in Huntingburg starts with a familiar reminder that Dubois County’s baseball identity reaches far beyond one game. The Dubois County Bombers opened their 2026 season Tuesday night against the Jackson Rockabillys in a 7 p.m. CDT matchup the Prospect League listed as Opening Night, and Jackson marked it as its 2026 home opener in Jackson, Tennessee.
The Bombers are based at Historic League Stadium, 203 S. Cherry St. in Huntingburg, a ballpark with a history that still shapes how the team is seen in Dubois County. League Stadium was used in the 1995 HBO movie "Soul of the Game," and original movie props and advertisements remain along the outfield fence. Satchel Paige also pitched there in 1962, giving the field a direct link to one of baseball’s most recognizable names.
Professional baseball returned to the site in 1996 with the Dubois County Dragons of the Heartland League. The Frontier League’s Dubois County Dragons followed from 1999 to 2002, and the Bombers arrived in 2005. That run has made League Stadium one of the Prospect League’s most distinctive homes and a centerpiece of summer baseball in Huntingburg.
Travis LaMar, who has led the Bombers as head coach since 2019 and joined the staff in 2017, guided a program that says it has seen many players drafted into Major League Baseball. The organization also says the Bombers were named the 2023 Summer Collegiate Baseball Organization of the Year, adding to the expectations around a team built to compete every summer.
The 2026 season also brought a league-wide change. The Prospect League announced a partnership with Trackman that will equip all 20 teams and stadiums with analytics and data-tracking technology beginning with the 2026 season. For Dubois County fans, the opener was not just the first game on the calendar. It was the start of another summer at one of the league’s most historic parks, where the past is visible on the fence lines and the present is measured pitch by pitch.
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