Through two amazing connections recently, I have been able to travel back in time online to the Quonset Point Naval Air Station Baseball Experience. My two connections, Providence College Archives and Special Collections and the North Kingstown Town Library, have given me some incredible access to photos, news clippings, and baseball stories. I cannot thank these two incredible resources enough for their invaluable information. I want to share a few baseball items with you from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s courtesy of the Quonset Scout, which was the newspaper of the Quonset Naval Air Station base, that really stood out to me.

And courtesy of a website link provided by the staff at the North Kingstown Town Library, I was able to discover the field from a previous photo of the team circa 1944. Here is the team photo again:

And I believe this is the field that photo was taken on. The Quonset Scout referred to it as BOQ, possibly referring to it as Boris Field (not confirmed).

And the place where the field was now looks like this:

So it appears as if the Quonset NAS baseball and football field of the 1940s and 1950s was replaced sometime in the 1960s, possibly the 1970s with what is now the North Kingstown Golf Course. I have played that course a hundred times and never knew I was playing golf on the site of such a historic baseball field. Wow, the things you learn from the internet. One final thought, if you look really close at the 2023 photo, you can almost make out the perimeter of a baseball field. Just squint your eyes like I did, it helps.