We have another ballpark conversion to report: Yuma’s Desert Sun Stadium and Ray Kroc Baseball Complex, former San Diego Padres spring-training home, is being converted to soccer. (more…)
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Ferguson walks away from AWBL
Tim Ferguson and the independent American West Baseball League have split ways, as the Yuma Desert Rats have folded before playing a single game at Desert Sun Stadium. What this means for the 2013 season remains to be seen. The AWBL already scrapped a winter league to be run out of Yuma, and while Ferguson […]
NAL sells Yuma Scorpions in stock transaction
The independent North American League has sold the Yuma Scorpions and other operating considerations to Godfather Media for five million shares in the firm’s OTC stock, valued at $200,000. Godfather Media, Inc,. based in Mission Viejo, Cal, acquired 100 percent of the assets of the Scorpions, as well the right of first refusal to the […]
No Lady Gaga, but good crowd for Scorpions
The independent North American League has a lot riding on the Yuma Scorpions this season after investing in Jose Canseco and Ozzie Canseco, and so far the crowd reports are mixed — but a decent weekend might be giving the team some traction. It’s hard to get a handle on how the NAL and the […]
Yuma Scorpions missing payroll, looking at move
Players with the GBL’s Yuma Scorpions have not been paid since early June, and the league is openly looking for a new home for what was once one of the leading teams in the circuit. Players with the Yuma Scorpions (independent; Golden Baseball League) have not been paid since early June, and the league is […]