Biloxi Bombers Foundation holds work day to restore D’Anella Park for future generations
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) — Decades of Biloxi baseball history live within the basepaths at D’Anella Park. Now, the community is teaming up to make sure future generations don’t lose that field of dreams.
As TJ Fraser helped lay sod at the park, each patch carries a piece of his childhood.
“Some of my best memories on this field were the neighborhood kids when there wasn’t baseball league going on. We would just have this whole fence lined up with bicycles and just out here playing and enjoying life,” Fraser, who played at D’Anella Park, said, .
Fraser joined in on the community effort to breathe new life into the ballpark, a field where his son and other players will get to make new memories.
“We’re doing it for a lot of the other kids in the community. And at the end of the day, we’re raising young men and showing them the men we want them to become,” Fraser said.
The park on Bonner Drive carries years of tradition, and organizer Bubba Hall says the next lineup is waiting to be written.
“It’s a great thing to do. That way, father and son want to come out here and take ground balls or fly balls, or...