Jay Littleton Ball Park was built in a working-class neighborhood in Ontario, California, about 45 minutes east of Los Angeles, in 1936-37. Nearly a century later, the field retained much of its quaint, vintage charm.
It was that charm that led location scouts to select the bucolic neighborhood park as the setting of the 1992 film “A League of Their Own,” which still evokes fond memories decades later as the definitive film adaptation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that enjoyed its heyday during World War II.
Thursday, the stadium burned to the ground.
The Ontario Fire Department said the fire broke out around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The blaze had erupted from the dugout and the stadium seating by the time firefighters arrived on the scene, according to reports.