Memorial Stadium (Boise)

Memorial Stadium in Boise, ID, was the home of Boise affiliated baseball from 1989 through 2019. After that and the Coronavirus pandemic-canceled 2020 season, MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization raised most of the Northwest League two levels.

The Boise Hawks would have been included, but their stadium got them dropped. Rudimentary from its debut, it had grown more and more dated. Hawks ownership spent several years trying to build a new one, but they were blocked at every turn by land availability and finally the local populace. Ownership says it will now pursue a bigger ballpark and a Triple-A franchise.

The Hawks reportedly talked to Hillsboro, OR, before the Yakima Bears moved there following the 2012 season. Two years later, the Chicago Cubs dropped their 14-year affiliation because of the facility.

The Pioneer League, which the same reorganization took from a short-season affiliated circuit to an independent one, gave the Hawks a 2021 reprieve that then turned as permanent as is possible in professional baseball. The Hawks initially filled in for the Orem Owlz during that season, which they took off to move to Windsor, CO. In August 2021, however, the loop announced it would add rather than subtract its way to an even number of 2022 teams by putting a new franchise in Kalispell, MT - now the Glacier Range Riders - and keeping the Hawks.

Privately funded on Ada County-owned land next to the Western Idaho Fairgrounds, Memorial opened in 1989. Boise State University, which revived baseball in 2020 after 40 years, went back and forth on a joint park with the Hawks before finally declining. BSU re-dropped baseball after the pandemic shortened its return campaign.

Boise professional baseball dated erratically to 1904, this franchise to its 1987 move from Richland, WA - playing at a high school field until Memorial opened two seasons later. A long-running Pioneer League franchise folded in 1963.

It can seat 3,452.