Central Arkansas civic leaders and athletic organizations teamed up today to announce the first-ever “GameWeek in The Rock,” a week-long celebration of football and baseball that begins Aug. 27.
The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau is sponsoring the program, which will be chaired by Rex Nelson, the alternate federal co-chairman of Delta Regional Authority who is a board member of both the Arkansas Travelers and the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.
The week includes the final eight Arkansas Travelers games, as well as the kick-off of the high school and college football seasons in the Little Rock area.
“This represents a great tribute to the Travs and Ray Winder Field where 74 years of baseball memories have been established,” Nelson said in a press release. “It also provides a fitting manner to kick-off what has become an autumn ritual — high school and college football.”
A full run-down of the week’s events — which also feature a football class for women, taught by former Arkansas Razorback players Clint Stoerner, Oscar Malone and Anthony Lucas; a speech by former University of Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer at the Little Rock Touchdown Club; a lunch lecture with Bill Valentine, David Bazzel and Bruce James; free movie screenings of “Rudy” and “Field of Dreams” — is available after the jump.