If They Ever Finish Building It ...

Still-incomplete entrance portal to the new ballpark in Missoula, Aug-2006.

You can see the unfinished areas from some small sections of open berm.

One feature of the park is a state-of-the-art scoreboard.

• Location: Cregg Lane off Orange Street near McCormick Park, Missoula, Mont.
• Opened: 2004 as Missoula Civic Stadium
• Additional names: Ogren Park at Allegiance Field (2006)
• Home team: Missoula Osprey, Pioneer League (2004-present)
• Capacity: 2,600

The original planning board drawings showed the park as Missoula Civic Stadium, but the proprietors decided to call it Play Ball Park, to me a quite fitting name. However, by 2006 the park had acquired not one but two naming sponsors, resulting in the rather unwieldy moniker Ogren Park at Allegiance Field.

While the sponsorship was complete, the ballpark still was not as of my 2006 visit. The entrance portal was barren, the parking lot was unpaved, the press box was unfinished, and several sections down the line that would feature either stadium seats or a grass berm were still filled with rocks and barricaded with Cyclone fencing.

As a result, I am unable to give this park a rating. Perhaps the park will be complete someday and I will have the chance to return.