The Nashua Silver Knights will be celebrating the Fourth of July with an 11 a.m. game at Holman Stadium for the first time in their history. (Telegraph file photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – There won’t be any long bus ride to Pittsfield.

Or a trip to Worcester.

No, instead the Nashua Silver Knights are going to be home for the Fourth of July for the first time in their 12 year history.

It’s also the first time in some 20 years, a franchise tenant will be playing at Holman Stadium on July 4. The Knights now corner the market on the two holidays during their season, as for the first time ever they will also play at Holman on Memorial Day.

The official announcement hasn’t yet been made, but the Knights will be playing Futures League rival Worcester at 11 a.m.on Monday, July 4, Nashua general manager Cam Cook told The Telegraph on Tuesday.

Cook said he happened to bring up the July 4 idea in a meeting with city officials, and they liked the idea. It won’t interfere with the annual city fireworks show at night, and the Silver Knights will have extra activities in the Kids Zone and around the rest of the ballpark that normally would have been held by the city the first part of the day.

Cook said he’s always wanted to get the Knights involved in the city’s holiday celebration, and this was a perfect way to do it without any conflict with the city’s plans for later in the day and of course that night. There have been years past when the team would play here on July 3, sometimes with a postgame fireworks show, sometimes not.

“It’s going to be awesome,” Cook said, adding he and his staff have a lot of creative ideas for side activities. “It’s going to be a carnival that just happens to have a baseball game going on. I’ve been trying to get this for the last couple of years. We were able to go full tilt.”

The teams were originally supposed to play at Worcester in a 1 p.m. game. But since they’re both owned by Worcester businessman John Creedon, Jr., it was an easy switch. Especially since fireworks weren’t involved as well in Worcester, with the day game and the Triple A WooSox playing at home that night.

The last time a franchise tenant at Holman played here on July 4 was in 2001 when the professional independent league Nashua Pride played an early afternoon Atlantic League game.

Nashua won’t have to give Worcester back a home game, Cook said. “There are no tentative plans to switch,” he said.

Fans will benefit in this as kids under 12 will be admitted free, but so will some adults. The first 500 fans to order tickets on line for the July 4 game will not be charged. The team will announce all the details this week.

Nashua opens up its season here on Thursday, May 26, and also have a Saturday home game on Memorial Day weekend (both at 6 p.m.).

They’ll be home most of the July 4 holiday weekend, Saturday through Monday.