Historic Bowman Field is a minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

It is home to the Williamsport Crosscutters, a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League.

It served as home ice for the Williamsport Outlaws of the Federal Hockey League until the team folded in January 2013.

Bowman Field was completed in 1926 to host the city's entry as an original franchise in the New York–Pennsylvania League called the Williamsport Grays.

[10] The Grays had previously been playing their home games on the athletic field of Williamsport High School.

A group of civic leaders and baseball boosters lead the drive to construct a new stadium for the Grays on the western side of Williamsport on the banks of Lycoming Creek.

An agreement between the Grays and the city was reached in July, 1925 to build what was then known as Memorial Field, which was named for the municipal park in which it is located.

[13] J. Walton Bowman headed an 11-member holding company that financed and managed the construction of the ballpark at a cost of $75,000[11][13] (equivalent to $1,034,000 in 2023[1]).

Ground was broken in the fall of 1925 and the stadium opened in time for the beginning of the 1926 New York–Pennsylvania League season.

[16] The first game to be played at Bowman Field took place on April 22, 1926, when the Grays hosted the team of nearby Bucknell University in an exhibition.

[19] Dave Bresnahan was catching for the 1987 Williamsport Bills, who were in seventh place in an eight-team league, playing the last-place Reading Phillies in late-August game.

[20] With a runner on third base, Bresnahan switched catcher's mitts and put on a glove in which he had secreted a shaved-down potato.

When the pitch came in, Bresnahan fired the white potato down the third-base line, enticing the runner to sprint home.

"[21] However, the citizens of Williamsport applauded Bresnahan for his ingenuity, eventually prompting the club to retire his number 59.

[24] On August 1 the Crosscutters and Outlaws agreed to terms regarding restoration of the baseball diamond after the removal of the ice rink at the end of the hockey season, though beer sales at Outlaws games were still an issue (as the Crosscutters hold the liquor license for the stadium).

[25] Construction of the ice rink, named Airmen Pond after a local sponsor, began in early October.

In a statement, Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred said that the league's "greatest responsibility is to ensure that today's youth become active participants in our game as players and fans.

Tickets to the game were reserved for those involved in the Little League World Series, as well as a limited number of residents of Lycoming County on a lottery basis.