(KAIR) -- The Atchison County community of Muscotah is continuing its re-creation of baseball history by putting in their own version of Chicago’s famed Wrigley Field.
The miniature version will be located north of the current location of the Joe Tinker museum, named after Muscotah native, former Chicago Cub and Baseball Hall of Famer.
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That’s Jeff Hanson, Coordinator for the Joe Tinker Museum project.
The museum, designed to look like a large baseball, was once the old water tower for the community.
Hanson says they have already welded stitches on it and hope to have the museum come to life by the end of May.
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The “sampler people” are the Kansas Sampler Foundation, whose assisting in the fundraising for the Wrigley Field project.
The foundation will be coming to Muscotah in mid-May to work on the project; with the goal to have these two projects complete by the annual Rose Festival the first week in June.
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