The Joliet Slammers' name and primary logo, a guard tower flanked by barbed wire-topped walls, is an homage to Old Joliet Prison. On Thursday, the team played a game at the facility that inspired its ...

The minor league baseball season is starting and the Joliet Slammers are kicking theirs off with the Big House Ballgame in the Old Joliet Prison Yard.

Inmates used to play on the field up until the facility closed in 2002 and now the Joliet Slammers will take on the Gateway Grizzlies. It's a prison with an historic past now celebrating America's ...

Against the backdrop of prison watchtowers and barbed wire, the celebration of Route 66 in Joliet featured three hours’ worth of pregame festivities, including 15 food trucks serving delicacies as ...

JOLIET, Ill. - For the first time, the Joliet Slammers played within the walls of the Old Joliet Prison. The iconic "Big House Baseball" game helped kick off Route 66 Centennial celebrations. What we ...

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JOLIET, Ill. — Baseball is making a return to the Old Joliet Prison on Thursday in honor of the upcoming Route 66 centennial. On Thursday, the Joliet Area Historical Museum and the City of Joliet ...