The historic baseball field featured in the 1992 family comedy "A League of Their Own" was destroyed in an overnight fire, with photos and video showing the Jay Littleton Ball Park engulfed in flames.

Sioux City Explorers’ pitcher and State Rep. J.D. Scholten shared pictures of the bus fire on social media. ... Iowa minor league baseball team bus burnsThe fire happened around 3 a.m. Friday.

The blaze burned so hot it melted utility lines, damaged the field’s light poles and warped parts of the newly built restrooms. A fire engine on scene was also partially melted by the intense heat.

In this photo provided by J.D. Scholten, a bus carrying the Sioux City Explorers to a baseball game in Illinois caught fire early on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, near Earlham, Iowa.

The wooden grandstand, locker rooms, press box and dugout of Jay Littleton Ball Park, a baseball field in California that was featured in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” were destroyed ...

Sioux City Explorers’ pitcher and State Representative J.D. Scholten shared pictures of the bus fire on Facebook that shows the members of the team, having safely evacuated, looking on as crews ...

In Pacific Palisades, it was challenging to assess the condition of the high school campus because of thick smoke. “The baseball field is on fire,” Allison Holdorff Polhill, senior advisor to ...