Ramsey Field: the man behind its name

Most people in Meade County know where Ramsey Field is in Brandenburg, whether they have ever had any connection with youth baseball or not. It’s hard to travel down Broadway and not notice the Little League baseball field which has resided there since the 1920s. For some, fond memories abound of the field with many a summer spent playing there either as a player or watching children compete over the decades in America’s pastime. But who is Ramsey and why is this his field?
To answer this question, we must turn back the time to the 1950s. It was around that time that Egbert Ramsey and his wife Christine moved to Brandenburg from Custer. Egbert was a supervisor at the Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant. The Ramsey’s made the move after a bad snowstorm when Egbert had to travel home to Breckinridge County from Olin and was the first driver through the road.