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1943 – 1946
The banked gap: The Mysteries file leaves the Blue Sox' first home unlocated, and assembly was directed to state no location for it. This pass read the Indiana Historical Bureau's page for the South Bend Blue Sox marker (No. 71.2021.1, installed 2021), including its annotated text.
The bureau's word: The annotation states, on 1946 Tribune coverage and Sargent and Gorman's team history: "Bendix Field was located on the far west side of town and was not easily accessible and offered limited parking and seating." The same annotation gives the Bendix Field seasons' attendance — 41,918 in 1943, 49,294 in 1944, 49,223 in 1945 — inside the range the banked entry carries. The marker's own text says only that the 1946 move was to "the more centrally located and better-equipped Playland Park."
The placement now: The field stands at neighborhood strength on the state's historical bureau's word: the far west side. That is consistent with either candidate the file has weighed — the airport grounds or the Bendix plant grounds — and decides neither. No lot-level site is stated, and assembly still prints no location. The named settling sources remain unreached: the Bendix corporate records, and the 1943 city directory and Sanborn coverage.
Sources:
- Indiana Historical Bureau, the South Bend Blue Sox marker page with its annotations (in.gov/history), marker 71.2021.1 — read November 10, 2026: annotation 5, the far-west-side placement and the 1943–45 attendance.
- Historical Mysteries — the banked Bendix Field entry and its unlocated lot.