Class C baseball in Opole, Minnesota
The Opole Bears are an amateur baseball club from Opole, Minnesota, playing Class C in the Victory C League under the Minnesota Baseball Association. They went 10-7 in 2026 under manager Austin Lange.
The Minnesota Baseball Association lists the home ballpark as Opole Bears. Not Bears Field, not Opole Park. The ballpark's name, on the association's own page, is the name of the club that plays there. Somebody reached the field for the ground and typed the team in.
Eight classification points for a Stearns County settlement of a few hundred people, named after Opole in Poland by the immigrants who founded it. The ballpark is on County Road 17 and filed under Holdingford, because Opole has no post office.
Three games over .500 in a Stearns County league is a solid summer in the hardest baseball country in the United States.
The association lists the ballpark as Opole Bears, because somebody typed the team into the field for the field. High Cheese lets Opole enter its ground once and correctly.
Opole Bears in detail
- A summer season of Victory C League games, region games and invitationals.
- Opole Bears finished 2026 at 10-7 in the Victory C League.
- Results with full box scores on the club's MBA page.
- A published roster with positions, ages and schools.
- Season hitting and pitching lines, plus per-game box scores.
- Austin Lange manages; the club lists no email or phone.
- No published tryout, form or fee.
- Home is Opole Bears Field, 12363 Co Rd 17, Holdingford, Minnesota 56340.
- MBA rules, Class C at 8 classification points.
- News runs through the MBA state feed, not the club.
- In-season invitationals, with the MBA state tournament above them.
- No founding date or title list published.
- No club officers published.
- Documents belong to the association, not the club.
- The MBA runs a state calendar; the club's dates are games.
- No merchandise or store published.
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