Their home games are played at Modern Woodmen Park (formerly John O'Donnell Stadium) in Davenport, Iowa, one of the Quad Cities.

Other charter members of the 1901 Three-I League were the Bloomington Blues, Cedar Rapids Rabbits, Decatur Commodores, Evansville River Rats, Rockford Red Sox and Terre Haute Hottentots.

The Moline Plowboys/Moline A's were affiliates of the Detroit Tigers (1922), St Louis Browns (1931–1932), Chicago Cubs (1937–1940) and the Philadelphia Athletics (1947–48).

[1][6] The 1933 Davenport Blue Sox were ranked in The National Baseball Association's top 100 minor league teams (#58).

Led by future MLB players Roy Smalley Jr. and Rube Walker, the 1946 Davenport Cubs won the regular season pennant.

Bob Purkey, Frank Thomas and future Cy Young Award Winner Vern Law were on the 1949 Pirates.

Kuehn was called up to the Detroit Tigers after the 1952 Davenport season ended and won the 1953 Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award.

As a result, local businessman Hugo "Hooks" Kohn started a drive to bring a new team to Davenport.

Hooks Kohn was a local baseball enthusiast and a leading pioneer/player of "Diamond Ball", a Davenport game that evolved into today's softball.

[14][15] The 1960 Davenport Braves became a member of the fledgling Midwest League, a partnership that has continued without interruption in seven decades.

The 1960 Davenport Braves joined the Waterloo Hawks, Keokuk Cardinals, Dubuque Packers, Clinton C-Sox, Kokomo Dodgers, Quincy Giants and Decatur Commodores to form the 8-team 1960 Midwest League.

[21] In 2022, the High-A Central became known as the Midwest League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to the 2021 reorganization.

Richard Holtzman, another Chicago businessman who owned as many as five minor league teams, purchased the franchise from Semrow and remained as owner from 1987 until 1998.

On December 28, 2006, Krause agreed to sell the team to Florida-based Main Street Baseball for an undisclosed price; the sale was completed on November 29, 2007.

[24][25] Under Main Street Baseball's ownership, led by Dave Heller and Bob Herrfeldt, the River Bandits sparked a stunning resurgence of baseball in the Quad Cities, winning league championships in 2011 and 2013, setting new attendance records and capturing numerous awards for their innovative promotions.

The team's average attendance in its first year under Main Street rose by more than 56%, the largest such increase in baseball, and has climbed to nearly 3,700 fans per game.

), sponsorships jumped more than 64% in the first season, and CNBC named the team's logo one of the top eight in minor league baseball.

The River Bandits have also consistently had more women in leadership positions than most any team in baseball, and are the only minor league club to have won back-to-back Diversity Economic Impact Engagement (DEIE) Scholarships from major league baseball since MLB started awarding them in 2012.

The team won the prestigious "Golden Bobblehead" award in 2013 for best charitable promotion in Minor League Baseball for its innovative "Photo Jersey Auction" to benefit Autism Awareness.

Over time, the ballpark has shown its unique view, versatility and staying power, continuing to host baseball today as Modern Woodmen Park.

[33] Designed to combat the recurring and costly toll of flooding, a project was undertaken in 2004 to modernize and protect the facility in a joint effort of The River Bandits and the City of Davenport.

Only the exterior facade of the old stadium remained, with concessions, concourses, level loge boxes, and seating areas being reconstructed.

The resulting 2004 renovations included a raised playing field; a slight shift of the playing field to better face the river; removal of the drive behind the outfield fence; the addition of a berm in the outfield and the addition of exterior brick/metal columns, put in place for decoration and also to hold portable flood walls to be inserted outside the stadium.

Before the 2004 renovations, flooding created financial and logistical problems, as the team was regularly forced to move "home" games to local facilities or other MWL venues such as Clinton, Iowa, North Scott High School, Brady Street Stadium or Black Hawk College.

[28] The team unveiled a $347,000 HD video board shortly before the Bandits hosted the 2011 Midwest League All-Star Game.

[34] The renamed and remodeled Modern Woodmen Park was selected the Midwest League's best ballpark by Baseball America and earned a five-star rating from BallparkDigest.com.

[36] Under Main Street Baseball's leadership, the River Bandits have added many fun new features to the ballpark, including a new outfield bar, a new picnic area, five concourse-level "loge boxes", an 80-foot (24 m) long HD ribbon-board, a huge new 20' x 36' tall HD videoboard, a new playground, birthday room, additional office and storage space, a new concessions stand and more than a dozen new portable food carts, a Hall of Fame autographed jersey display, an unmatched collection of bobbleheads from across the country and a sponsored corn field from which the players are introduced at the game's outset.

glass-enclosed multi-purpose banquet hall with glass garage doors that open and close depending on the weather.

[26] In 2004, Author Tim Rask released a book titled Baseball at Davenport's John O'Donnell Stadium.

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