By MATT PIKE
The St. Joseph Mustangs will celebrate the Fourth of July all weekend long, starting early with Thursday with three days of fireworks extravaganzas at Phil Welch Stadium.
General Manager and Owner Ky Turner says playing at a stadium within a community, it’s unique to play at Phil Welch on the Fourth of July
“Here’s a ballpark and there’s houses all around us, well what do those houses do around that holiday? They shoot off fireworks too, so it’s really kind of like a 360 of fireworks when you’re sitting there watching a baseball game,” Turner says on the KFEQmunnity show. “You know, they talk about the batter’s eye and being able to pay attention to that pitch, I don’t know how you do that when you’ve got fireworks going off all around you, but it makes for a great show for us in the stands.”
Fireworks extravaganza will highlight the end of each Mustangs home game during the holiday. Turner says there are also some other fun things going on as well
“On the 3rd we are hosting Sluggerrr from the Kansas City Royals and Fredbird, thanks to Eagle Radio, from the St. Louis Cardinals, they’ll be there for a meet and greet, we’ll have pregame skydivers, notice I didn’t say Sluggerrr and Fredbird are skydiving but they will be there,” Turner says. “And then the 4th we have a Mr. and Miss Mustangs competition which is a blast.”
On Saturday the 5th, the Mustangs will also honor area fire, police, and EMT personnel. The pregame police versus fire softball game will also be held on that day.
Turner says the games will also be an opportunity to thank some of our nation’s heroes
“On the 3rd all veterans and active military receive two free general admission tickets, we’re going to honor some local military heroes for pregame that night, and then on the 4th all retired and active military can get two free party deck tickets, we do encourage people to reserve those in advance as they can sell out,” Turner explains. “But we’re here to celebrate and honor America playing America’s game, you know America’s pastime is baseball, we’ve got fireworks, of course we’ve got the hot dogs.”
The Mustangs kick off things on Thursday against the Chillicothe Mudcats. All games over the holiday begin at 7pm.
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