Some summer-collegiate news: The Florida Collegiate Summer League announced it will play a 30-game season with 10 squads beginning June 29, while the Midwest Collegiate League has added another squad and will play all its games in Northwest Indiana. (more…)
Three summer-collegiate leagues announced updated 2020 season plans: the New York Collegiate Baseball League is canceling the season, while the MINK League and Florida Collegiate Summer League will operate in a different fashion. (more…)
With the summer-collegiate regular season wrapping up last night, we’ll be reporting the numbers across the industry. We continue today’s coverage with a listing of 2017 summer-collegiate attendance sorted by total. (more…)
Tinker Field, the historic Orlando ballpark where the Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins trained for decades, will be torn down to make way for the Citrus Bowl expansion. The above photo shows the 91-year-old Tinker Field in the 1920s, when the orginal grandstand was built to house Cincinnati Reds spring training. (The Reds trained there […]
Tucked away off Winter Park’s main drag, Alfond Stadium at Harper-Shepherd Field has hosted baseball since 1926 and is home to one of the great traditional college-baseball tournaments, Baseball Week. FAST FACTS Dedicated: 1983Capacity: 1,000Surface: GrassOwner: Rollins CollegeWebsite: rollinssports.comOnline Ticket Sales: YesPhone: 407/646-2328Teams: Rollins College Tars (Sunshine State Conference), Winter Park Diamond Dawgs (Florida Collegiate Summer League)Address: 801 N. […]
Montgomery Biscuits (Class AA; Southern League) broadcaster Joe Davis is joining ESPN in a full-time role, with broadcaster Aaron Vargas replacing him as the Voice of the Biscuits. Vargas, 23, joined the Biscuits for the 2012 season after two years as the Director of Marketing/P.R. for the Florida Collegiate Summer League, and four years as […]
We continue our coverage of 2011 attendance figures with a listing of numbers from summer-collegiate leagues. In this article, we list attendance by league. We list the numbers for 2010 and 2011 to give you an idea of how teams and leagues fared year to year. Be warned that this isn’t necessarily a strict comparison […]
A new career route emerges, as Davey Johnson becomes the second summer-collegiate manager to snare a Major League Baseball job this season, as he goes from a FCSL gig in 2009 to heading the Washington Nationals as of Monday. Johnson joins Terry Collins as former summer-collegiate managers to go to the bigs. Terry Collins, who […]
Chain of Lakes Park, the former spring home of the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians, would be redeveloped as a lakeside village with retail and restaurants under a plan submitted to Winter Haven officials, with work beginning in a month. The Landings, proposed by Orlando developer Tony Benge, would take the former spring-training site […]
More attendance goodness for you: the summer collegiate leagues listed in order of total attendance. # Team League 2009 2010 GMS TOT +/- 1 Madison Mallards NorthWL 197,723 194,179 33 -0.02 2 La Crosse Loggers NorthWL 111,054 104,772 33 -0.06 3 Eau Claire Express NorthWL 66,366 70,380 33 0.06 4 Wisconsin Woodchucks NorthWL 53,583 58,308 […]
We begin our listing of attendance figures for the 2010 season; here are the attendance figures for summer-collegiate leagues, listed by average. # Team League 2009 GMS 2,010 AV +/- 1 Madison Mallards NorthWL 5,991 33 5,884 -0.02 2 La Crosse Loggers NorthWL 3,266 33 3,174 -0.03 3 Fayetteville Swampdogs CPL 2,217 23 2,335 0.05 […]
