The Ewald Homes Field House, located at beautiful Rotary Park was constructed between February and December 2013 under the watchful eye of CMBA President Jason Chickowski.

The building was built due in large part to the donation of labour for the project from Dave Ewald and his staff at Ewald Homes Limited, a local successful home construction business. In July of 2012, Dave Ewald agreed to donate the labour required to erect this state-of-the-art facility to help enhance the overall baseball experience of the close to 550 kids involved in Chatham Minor Baseball. Dave himself a volunteer coach in the Association understood that the community and the Association was in need of a facility where the kids and coaches could develop their skills twelve months of the year, free of the in climate Southwestern Ontario weather.

Amidst an already hectic schedule building quality homes for the citizens of Chatham-Kent, Dave and his crew broke ground the first week of February 2013 and worked over the next 11 months to finish the project in mid-December. Many hours were spent in the bone chilling cold of the winter and the sweltering heat of a Chatham-Kent summer to ensure that no detail was left undone, no aspect of the building completed without the impact it would have on the users.
In the end, the facility was finished and now includes the following amenities:

• over 5,000 square feet of training space outfitted with professional grade "Astro-Turf" flooring and netting
• fully insulated interior/exterior and a radiant heat floor system to ensure year round use
• a 20-foot by 24-foot waiting room/team room/lounge with big screen television, kitchenette and leather furniture that affords visitors and family members the opportune space to view the proceedings through two large plexi-glass windows in a safe and relaxing environment
• office space to be shared with other not-for-profit groups in the community
• storage space for equipment
• benches and change space available for players to change before and after workouts

In continuing to build upon the uniqueness of Fergie Jenkins Field at Rotary Park, the eastern most exterior wall of the Ewald Homes Field House is now the right field home run barrier recreating Chatham-Kent's very own "Green Monster" as seen at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Lefties hoping to take advantage of the short porch in right field (approx. 260 feet) now have to contend with a wall over 15 feet in height.
Along the way, Dave was able to bring along various local contractors who agreed to greatly reduce their labour costs and many even donated their time to ensure the work was done in a timely fashion and up to the standards other projects at Rotary Park had previously been built.
 
Thank you Dave and Ewald Homes Limited !!