Granite Falls Kilowatts

Class C baseball in Granite Falls, Minnesota

The Granite Falls Kilowatts are an amateur baseball club from Granite Falls, Minnesota, playing Class C in the Corn Belt League under the Minnesota Baseball Association. They went 16-8 in 2026 under manager Mike Richter at Richter Field.

The club is called the Kilowatts. Granite Falls has run a municipal hydroelectric plant on the Minnesota River since 1911, and the town named its baseball team after the thing it makes. It is the only club in this directory named after a unit of power.

The manager's surname is the ballpark's name, which is the third time that pairing has turned up in the Minnesota set after Atwater and Elko. The association never explains any of them, because in a town of about two thousand seven hundred everybody already knows.

Eleven classification points and sixteen wins in twenty-four games is a club well ahead of its grade.

A club named after a unit of electrical power, because the town has made it since 1911. High Cheese gives Granite Falls the page where the name gets explained instead of just listed.