History
In 1951, former player Claude "Shorty" Miles worked behind the scenes to help get a new baseball park built in Medford because of his unbridaled passion for the sport. A suspicious fire destroyed the structure, but it was quickly rebuilt. The stadium was originally known as the Jackson County Baseball Park when it first opened. Eight months after Shorty Miles died in 1968, Jackson County Baseball Park was rededicated as Miles Field.
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