Hammons Field has a new name: Route 66 Stadium.
Speaking at the home of the Springfield Cardinals shortly after a naming ceremony on Thursday morning, the team’s general manager Dan Reiter said it’s a first of its kind multi-year collaborative naming rights program.
“When you look at our main gate, we have five pillars. And so, five pillars of the community came together to name the stadium something that’s really great for our community and kind of putting the community in that naming above just one single company,” Reiter said.
Mercy, O’Reilly Auto Parts, the City of Springfield, Missouri State University and Springfield Cardinals make up the collaboration behind the new name…