Article: Play Ball confident it has hit home run

The once-blond wooden steps to the temporary trailers at Ogren Park have begun to turn silver.

Repeated promises, too, of a completed stadium, of locker rooms for the professional Missoula Osprey baseball players and of a concession stand that meets Missoula City.-County Health Department standards remain unfulfilled.

"It's been difficult. I won't deny that. It's been disappointing at times. It's been just a handful of us. We've continued in the face of adversity," said Wes Spiker, director of the nonprofit Play Ball Missoula. Play Ball owns the stadium and contracts with the Missoula Osprey, owned in part by Matt Ellis, to operate the stadium.

Or, to be more accurate, Ellis operates the ...

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