The Bangor West All-Stars were fresh from winning the Maine Little League baseball championship on a dramatic, walk-off grand slam in extra innings during the summer of 1989. But as the team was ready to graduate from the smaller dimensions of a Little League diamond to a traditionally sized baseball field to compete in Junior League the following spring, the field it planned to call its home base on outer Union Street needed work. So much work, in fact, that the team’s coaches — including famed horror writer Stephen King, whose son Owen played on the Bangor West squad — conceived a plan to create a world-class baseball facility in the Queen City fit for all young players to use. By the summer of 1992, the $1.2 million Shawn T.
Comment on 30 years ago, Stephen King helped bring the ‘Field of Screams’ to Bangor
Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News
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