Bemidji Blue Ox

Class B baseball in Bemidji, Minnesota

The Bemidji Blue Ox are an amateur baseball club from Bemidji, Minnesota, playing Class B in the Northwest Border League under the Minnesota Baseball Association. They went 12-6 in 2026 under manager Bazil Zuehlke at Security Insurance Field, 100 19th St NE.

Bemidji fields two clubs in this league and their ballparks are next door to each other. The Blue Ox play at number 100 on 19th Street NE; the Bemidji Bucks play at number 101. Two teams, two grades, one block.

The Blue Ox are Class B at twenty-eight points and went 12-6. The Bucks are Class A at forty-six and went 8-14. The lower-graded club across the street had the better summer.

The name is Babe the Blue Ox, who stands beside Paul Bunyan on the lakeshore in the middle of town, and there was never any chance Bemidji was going to call itself anything else.

Number 100 and number 101 on 19th Street NE, two clubs, two grades, and the lower one won more. High Cheese gives each Bemidji side its own address instead of a shared street.