bowl was upgraded with a ticket office and gift shop, and the business offices were upgraded. In 2003, Holman Stadium hosted the Atlantic League All-Star Game. In 2006, the Pride switched to the Can-Am League with its shorter season. In 2008, the team was sold to an ownership group including former Boston Red Sox General Manager Dan Duquette and renamed the American Defenders of New Hampshire. The Defenders played a single season in 2009, concluded on the road because of non-payments to the city; in 2010, the team moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts to become the Pittsfield Colonials. Collegiate baseball In 2011, the Nashua Silver Knights brought baseball back to Holman Stadium. In 2012, Holman Stadium hosted the inaugural FCBL All-Star Game. The former football bleachers, down the left-field line, were removed, reducing the stadium's capacity to the current 2,800; the football press box remains but is now used as a storage shed. In 2017, the city installed a new sound system and a small videoboard beyond left field, costing $173,000, of which $56,000 was paid for by the Silver Knights. The videoboard supersedes a two-line alphanumeric message board that had not worked for the preceding four years and could not be repaired. In the springtime, the stadium serves as the home field for two of Nashua's schools, the Raiders of Rivier University and the Cardinals of Bishop Guertin High School. Competitors Baseball clubs at Holman Stadium compete for fans' attention with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in Manchester (double-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays); and with the Lowell Spinners (single-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox) until 2020. The Spinners owned and operated the Nashua Silver Knights until 2016. References Sources Daly, Steve. 2002. Dem Little Bums. Concord, NH: Plaidswede Publishing Co. Nashua History Committee. 1977. The Nashua Experience: History in the Making, 1673–1978. Concord NH: Phoenix Publishing (see pp. 230–231). Roper, Scott C., and Stephanie Abbot Roper. 1998. "'We're Going to Give All We Have for this Grand Little Town': Baseball Integration and the 1946 Nashua Dodgers." Historical New Hampshire 53:1/2 (Spring/Summer 1998) 3–19. External links Holman Stadium Views – Ballparks of the Minor Leagues Historic Holman Stadium – Home of the Nashua Silver Knights Baseball venues in New Hampshire Minor league baseball venues Buildings and structures in Nashua, New Hampshire Tourist attractions in Nashua, New Hampshire Futures Collegiate Baseball League ballparks 1937 establishments in New Hampshire Sports