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Historic A League of Their Own baseball park destroyed in fire in California: ‘A terrible loss’ [Video]

“The grandstands are all gone, the dugouts are all gone, everything associated with being a spectator at that field is gone,” Ontario’s director of communications told “Entertainment Weekly.”

There’s no crying in baseball — but tears were likely shed after a historic ballpark went up in flames this week.

The Jay Littleton Ball Park in Ontario, Calif. — which served as a filming location for 1992’s A League of Their Own — was destroyed in a fire that began Thursday night, Ontario’s director of communications, Dan Bell, told Entertainment Weekly.

“It’s a terrible loss for our community,” Bell said. “Everyone here either played or had relatives or kids who played on that field over the years. In its 87 years of existence, a lot of people played on that field.”

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