Miller Stadium

The Crowley Millers played the 1950 season in the Gulf Coast League and then joined the Evangeline League, where they stayed from 1951 through 1957. They won the league title in 1952 with an 81 and 59 record and reached the postseason as a wild card in five seasons. In June 1951 centerfielder Andy Strong was killed by lightning during a game against the Alexandria Aces. In 1956 and 1957 it was affiliated with the Kansas City Athletics.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana Oil and Gas Park — 18 mi
  The roadside park at Jennings where Louisiana's oil industry began in 1901, with a replica derrick, a pioneers' plaque and Gator Chateau.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 20 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 23 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 29 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.

More markers nearby

• Crowley Louisiana Post Office 1913 — 0.5 mi
• Crowley (North Avenue F) — 0.5 mi
• Senator John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Speech — 0.6 mi
• David L. & Jeanette Ross May House — 0.6 mi