In its 100 years, Breese Stevens Field, the city-owned field smack in the middle of Madison’s isthmus, has lived a hundred different lives.
“Every time somebody tries to tell Breese what it’s going to do, it doesn’t,” said Tristan Straub, Breese’s general manager.
The field’s official centennial is this week. It first opened on May 5, 1926 as a field for the city’s high school sports games and as the home field for the Madison Blues, the city’s semi-pro baseball team. Around 4,000 people were in attendance…