Baseball was a popular pastime in Wilsonville during a period of community baseball from around 1910 to 1930. The high point came in 1914, when the Wilsonville Athletic Club won the state championship. Regular Sunday games at this site were played against teams from Salem, Canby, Mt. Hangel, Woodburn, St. Paul, Sherwood, Stafford, Tualatin, the Sweetbriars from the Pete's Mountain area, and even a train car load of players from the Oregon Penitentiary. During those years, Wilsonville baseball was led by the four Baker brothers, who learned the game on their own diamond at the family farm off Grahams Ferry Road. One brother, Del Baker, later played for the Detroit Tigers and became their manager, leading them to the World Series in 1940, where they lost to Cincinnati in seven games, during a baseball career that spanned 50 years. Another Wilsonville team member was Andy Hasselbrink, a lifelong baseball enthusiast for whom the new playing field at Wilsonville Memorial Park was dedicated in 1973.