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The Midnight Sun Game is an amateur baseball game played every summer solstice at Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Because the sun is out for almost 24 hours a day, the game starts at about 10:30 at night and completes around 1:30 the next morning .
Growden Memorial Park on June 21, 2005, during annual Midnight Sun Game. Growden Memorial Field is a baseball park located in Growden Memorial Park used for collegiate summer and high school baseball and has been the home field for the Alaska Baseball League's Alaska Goldpanners since 1960.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Midnight Sun Run is a ten-kilometer (6.2 mi) road running event, held annually since 1983 in Fairbanks, Alaska, it attracts participants from across the United States and from around the world.
Also in Fairbanks, Alaska, solar midnight occurs at 01:51 a.m. local time. If a precise moment for the genuine "midnight sun" is required, the observer's longitude, the local civil time, and the equation of time must be taken into account. The moment of the Sun's closest approach to the horizon coincides with its passing due north at the ...
The players line up before the first pitch of the 2011 Midnight Sun Game. First held in 1906, the annual Midnight Sun Game is held yearly in Fairbanks, hosted by the Goldpanners. The game, which begins at 10:30 PM on the night of the summer solstice, has gained the attention of international media. [citation needed]
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Two years later, Mehan sold the station to the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Company, which divested itself of KABI, for $50,000. [23] The entire Midnight Sun group, including AM-TV combos in Anchorage and Fairbanks, was sold for $1.2 million in 1960 to All-Alaska Broadcasters, [ 24 ] which became the new Midnight Sun Broadcasters in 1962. [ 9 ]
Category: Sports in Fairbanks, Alaska. ... Midnight Sun Game; Midnight Sun Run; O. Open North American Championships; W. World Eskimo Indian Olympics; Y. Yukon 800 ...