AMERICAN LEGION HELLGATE POST #27 AND
THE MISSOULA MAVERICKS
Celebrating our 100th year of American Legion Baseball in the Missoula community! Hellgate Post #27 of the American Legion was chartered in 1920 and serves as the Legion sponsor of the Missoula Mavericks. The Missoula Mavs have the primary responsibility for the maintenance of the park as well as coordination of the construction of the facility’s buildings. The Hellgate Post has sponsored American Legion Baseball in the Missoula area since 1925, and has played ball at several sites over time throughout the Missoula area. In 1984, a lease agreement was drawn up between the Missoula Mavericks, the American Legion and Missoula County at which time the construction of the present facility began. The first Legion Baseball game was played at this site in June of 1987. The current playing field is known as Lindborg-Cregg Memorial Field and is recognized as one of the finest in the Northwest.
In 1998, the American Legion Hellgate Post voted to name this park and complex encompassing Lindborg- Cregg Field and the 17-acre area upon which the field is located to honor Legionnaire, Mr. Dale Dahlgren. Without Dale’s endless energy and dedication to American Legion Baseball, and to Missoula area youth, you would not see a baseball complex anywhere near the quality of what you see here today. Recent construction as well as the improvements to the bleacher areas cost the American Legion and the Mavericks group more than $100,000. This complex is known as the “Dale Dahlgren American Legion Baseball Complex”.
The complex is served by the Missoula Mavericks Legion Baseball Program and its army of parent volunteers in the upkeep and maintenance of this great facility. To date, the Hellgate Post of American Legion has invested over $300,000 in the development of this outstanding baseball park. In 2019, the Mavericks organization spent another $300,000 on our state of the art indoor hitting facility- the Clayton Bertsfield Warehouse and Brent Hathaway Training Center. It is the sincere hope of both the American Legion and the Missoula Mavericks that your visits to the ballpark will be enjoyable.