Not only does the Southeastern League want professional baseball to entrench itself in Selma, it also wants to make some small improvements to what will be the Cloverleafs home.

Built in the mid-20th Century, Bloch Park is beginning to show its age. And though it remains in acceptable condition because of the efforts of the Selma Parks and Recreation Department, improvements to accommodate the Cloverleafs are in the near future, said Southeastern League minority owner Noopie Cosby.

“Honestly, there’s not a lot to do to this field,” said Cosby, whose organization already has expanded the dugouts.

“This field has been kept up miraculously over the years with all the baseball that has been played on it.”

Cosby sees the new dugouts and permanent box seats as a first priorities for the Cloverleafs. But other possible improvements loom on the horizon, he said.

“There’s a lot of things that have changed in baseball since 1967 when I was a catcher in high school, Cosby said.

“Eventually, we want to get a tarp in here for rain days. We want to get a fungo pad to take infield practice off of. I’d love to say that we had a stadium like the one they have at the University of Alabama, but that’s not practical.

“The scoreboard is in pretty good shape, but that might be coming with the city and advertisers and how they might want to do that. If we have more fans coming to the games, we need to look at expanding down the right field and left field lines.”

Selma P&R executive director Elton Reece said making drastic improvements to the ball park he is responsible for are attainable goals. The biggest benefit for Selma is that the Southeastern League will pick up the bill on any of the changes.

“Everything they do is going to be conducive to helping the public out,” Reece said. “It’s my job to upkeep this and anything we can do to keep them from spending money on labor, we need to do because that just aids everybody.”