Next spring, the Joliet Slammers will play a game on the Old Joliet Prison baseball diamond where inmates used to play ball ...

The Joliet Slammers will play one game only this spring, appropriately titled "The Big House Ballgame." Greg Peerbolte, the ...

Baseball is making a return to the Old Joliet Prison in honor of the upcoming Route 66 centennial next year. The Joliet Area ...

The exhibition game will adopt the name “The Big House Ballgame” to represent the long history of organized baseball played at the prison.

I spent a decade at the Michigan City Prison as an adjunct instructor for Purdue University, and then, in a twist of fate, was cast in a small speaking part role as a reporter in the 2009 Universal ...