
Dwyer Stadium is the home of the Batavia Muckdogs of the NY-Penn League. The Muckdogs are the Short Season Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.
I dropped in on the little community of Batavia while en route from Buffalo to Rochester one morning. It seems like a really nice town made even nicer by this pleasant little ballpark. It sits at the end of a residential street, just another place for the townsfolk to gather.
I didn't get to see a game, but some very friendly groundskeepers let me walk around and take some pictures. It seems like a fine, if unremarkable ballpark for the NY-Penn League. Comfortable and airy with very green grass.
I asked the groundkeeper about the dreadful team name, Muckdogs. He said that the team was called the Clippers for many years, but through some series of legal silliness they were denied the rights to use that name by the AAA Columbus Clippers. So now they are the Muckdogs. He had no idea why they came up with that hideous name, but his opinion of it was quite obvious. He performed he tasks in a Batavia Clippers jacket.
These photos were taken in April, 1999