This story shows just how amazing and caring the Evansville community truly is.

Casey's Dugout

Located off Lincoln Avenue on Evansville's east side sits a small pizza place, that is filled to the brim with sports memorabilia.  When you step inside Casey's Dugout, you'll first notice the love of baseball is strong with the restaurant.  You'll also notice that much of the restaurant is decked out in an homage to Evansville's hometown hero, Donny Baseball (you may know him better as Don Mattingly).

I've been to Casey's Dugout a few times, and the pizza is incredibly delicious (their potato pizza with tzatziki sauce is next level), and the atmosphere is inviting and fun.  Plus there is a TON of Evansville nostalgia throughout the decor, including a sign from Midget Links on the wall.  Recently Casey's Dugout took to Facebook to announce they would be closed after the family had suffered a tragic loss.

Evansville Sports Legend Clint Keown

On September 22nd, 2024 Clint Keown's life was tragically cut short, leaving a loving family, and the Evansville sports community in shock.  According to Clint's obituary from Browning Funeral Home Clint's sports accolades are nothing short of impressive. He used his love of sports to mentor and coach kids from all over the area, and left a huge mark on the Evansville community.

An outpouring of Support for the Keown Family

Casey's Dugout is owned by Casey, brother of Clint.  As you can imagine after suffering a tragic and sudden loss, it is hard to run a business.  That's where multiple other restaurants, food trucks, and bakeries stepped up to show an outpouring of love and support for Casey's Dugout and the Keown family and friends.  On September 30th, Casey's Dugout took to Facebook to share this incredibly heartfelt post, that is a true testament to the kind of community we have here in Evansville.

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It's long, but worth the read.

We are making pizzas again yall and operating on normal business hours. I just wanted to mention something. My family has been overwhelmed with so much love and support over the last week, many restaurants, local food and dessert places such as Frank Patton Jr. BBQ, La Campirana, Papa John’s, Piece of Cake, Jayson Munoz Caters and Kanpai, Mr. Ted Thompson along with Working Distributors, Inc., and MISSION BBQ to name a few. As well so many amazing families have donating food to my entire family and to say that we are grateful is an understatement. They all mean the same in my heart, but let me tell you about one that sticks out to me because it’s pizza…If you follow me on here and follow my page, then you have seen me mention my love and respect for Randy Hobson and Pangea Kitchen… after Clint’s showing I invited his closest friends and family to the dugout for a drink, and an outlet for everyone to get together and laugh, cry, and talk about memories. The last thing I wanted to do was fire that oven up and cook for those folks. My whole crew showed up ready to roll and ready to support us, but I told them not to turn the ovens on, I want them to be a part of it… Randy must have caught wind of this at the showing and showed up with over 20 pizzas and buckets of drunken noodles… he didn’t have to do it… But he did it, and put a smile on every single person’s face that was in that room. I’m not a competitor of Pangea’s pizza, what Mr. Hobson has created over there can’t and won’t be replicated ever in this town, I am simply a fan, a huge fan along with everyone else in my family. A heartfelt thank you to Mr. Hobson and the whole crew at Pangea for an amazing and loving gesture. You all are the best for a reason and I’m taking notes!

The next time you're heading out to grab some lunch or dinner, consider stopping by one of the fine establishments mentioned in Casey's Dugout Facebook post.  As they say, it takes a village, and this goes to show that Evansville is one heck of a village.