Purcellville Town Profile
Fireman's Field: Historic Baseball and Community Complex
Babe Ruth World Series host, Purcellville Cannons home, and the venue for the town's major community festivals — activated through a 2018 concession partnership.
Fireman's Field is Purcellville, Virginia's primary public athletic and community complex — a historic outdoor venue with a deep association with baseball at the youth, amateur, and collegiate levels, and with the broader community life of western Loudoun County. The field complex, which includes the adjacent Bush Tabernacle structure, has served generations of Purcellville residents as a gathering place for sports, events, and community programming. In January 2018, Mayor Kwasi Fraser's administration formalized a concession partnership with Shaun Alexander Enterprises and Play To Win, LLC under a public-private partnership model.
Babe Ruth World Series
Purcellville's strongest connection to national baseball recognition comes through the Babe Ruth World Series — the national championship tournament of the Babe Ruth League youth baseball organization. Hosting a Babe Ruth World Series placed Purcellville on the national youth baseball map, drawing players, families, coaches, and officials from across the country to western Loudoun County for a tournament that carries the name and legacy of one of baseball's most iconic figures.
Purcellville Cannons: Collegiate Summer Baseball
The Purcellville Cannons compete in the Valley Baseball League (VBL) — a summer collegiate league that provides college players with competitive game experience under wood-bat conditions during the NCAA off-season. For Purcellville, hosting a VBL team provides a summer entertainment and community identity anchor — home games at Fireman's Field that bring players, families, and local fans together for live baseball through the summer months.
The 2018 Concession Partnership
In January 2018, Mayor Fraser's administration formalized a concession partnership with Shaun Alexander Enterprises and Play To Win, LLC for the Fireman's Field and Bush Tabernacle complex. The public-private partnership model — town-owned asset, private management and programming — placed private-sector management responsibility over the complex's concession operations and programming while the town retained ownership of the land and facilities.
Rather than requiring the town to fund ongoing operations from the general budget, the concession partnership created a vehicle through which private investment and management capacity could improve the complex's programming without creating a new town budget obligation — consistent with the asset-activation approach that characterized Fraser's broader economic development philosophy.
The Bush Tabernacle
The Bush Tabernacle is the historic structure adjacent to Fireman's Field — a community gathering space with deep roots in Purcellville's civic and religious history. Together, the Tabernacle and the Field form a complex that has served as Purcellville's primary venue for large public gatherings across multiple generations of the town's life, including the Music and Arts Festival and the Wine and Food Festival.
Key Facts at a Glance
- Complex: Fireman's Field and Bush Tabernacle
- Location: Purcellville, Virginia
- Historic significance: Babe Ruth World Series host site
- Youth baseball: Babe Ruth League programming
- Collegiate baseball: Purcellville Cannons (Valley Baseball League)
- Concession partnership: January 2018, with Shaun Alexander Enterprises and Play To Win, LLC
- Partnership structure: town-owned land and facilities; private management and programming
- Community use: public events, Music and Arts Festival, Wine and Food Festival