The Joliet Slammers played the Gateway Grizzlies before fans celebrating Illinois and Hollywood history. At the Old Joliet ...

Against the backdrop of prison watchtowers and barbed wire, the celebration of Route 66 in Joliet featured three hours’ worth ...

Thursday marked 100 years since two entrepreneurs in Springfield, Missouri, sent a telegram to the nation’s capital ...

Baseball is making a return to the Old Joliet Prison on Thursday in honor of the upcoming Route 66 centennial. On Thursday, ...

The Frontier League's Joliet Slammers are leaning into their nickname after announcing that they will play an exhibition game at a local prison next season. Old Joliet Prison, which was open from 1858 ...

The minor league baseball season is starting and the Joliet Slammers are kicking theirs off with the Big House Ballgame in the Old Joliet Prison Yard.

Although the Joliet Slammers lost to the Gateway Grizzlies by a score of 14-3, thousands of people who attended the game had ...

Yes, the rains came, but Thursday was an incredible day for the city of Joliet as the Joliet Slammers played at the Old ...

The Joliet Slammers' name and primary logo, a guard tower flanked by barbed wire-topped walls, is an homage to Old Joliet ...

For the first time, the Joliet Slammers played within the walls of the Old Joliet Prison. The iconic "Big House Baseball" ...

A Big House Ballgame at the Old Joliet Prison, made famous by the “Blues Brothers” film, kicked off Route 66's centennial ...