The Bring Back Baseball Committee wants English Park as the site for the $7 million minor league baseball stadium it has proposed. A final decision on a site to recommend to the general community and elected officials has not been made, committee member Rodney Berry said last week, and other "dandy" sites exist.

"The committee keeps coming back to that site," Berry said. "The backdrop would be the river. That's about as good as it gets, with the sun going down over the river. That's a mighty nice sunset."

The city of Owensboro's plan to link the downtown riverfront to English Park with a riverside walkway would only enhance the park's potential as a stadium site, Berry said. Berry said the committee isn't quite ready to recommend a site, but members are in the process of talking to neighbors and businesses in the English Park area.

Berry said the committee's financial model for a stadium relies on the property, in this case an Owensboro park, to be donated.

The Bring Back Baseball Committee unveiled a plan in July for a multi-use stadium seating nearly 8,000 people - 4,000 for baseball - and costing $7 million. Total cost for the project would approach $10 million.

About a dozen sites are under consideration for a retro-style park, which would be used for as many as seven concerts and two festivals and high school and tournament baseball games a year. Baseball tickets would cost $4.