Community Field

Community Field
Location	Burlington, IA United States 40.825079; -91.135572
Building chronology
Built	1947
Tenants
Burlington (IA) Bees
Capacity
3,500

Community Field in Burlington, IA, was the home of Burlington affiliated baseball from 1947 through 2019. After that and the Coronavirus pandemic-canceled 2020 season, MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization eliminated the Burlington Bees of the Midwest League. They then joined the summer collegiate Prospect League.

It was a case of déjà vu that turned out differently: In 1962, the same Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League]] club survived the Three-I collapse by joining the MwL.

The original stadium opened in 1947, but Community's grandstand burned down June 9, 1971. Temporary grandstands were erected, and not one playing date was lost the rest of that season or the next while volunteers rebuilt it.

The ballpark appears in the film Sugar (2008).

Burlington first hosted professional baseball in 1889. At its end, this was the only minor league club that shared both its locale name and nickname. The other Bees, also an Angels' farm club but not corporately related, play in Salt Lake City, UT. Cities named Burlington in both North Carolina and Vermont also hosted teams, although the latter went by its state's name - then the leading city name in the minors, but all three were lost in the reorganization. The Indianapolis and Spokane Indians are now the only separately owned minor league teams that share a nickname.

Community Field has a capacity of 3,500 people.