It is a model that's never worked, but that's not stopping Bill Larsen from forming a four-team indy league to be based in Macon's Luther Williams Field.
It is a model that's never worked, but that's not stopping Bill Larsen from forming a four-team indy league to be based in Macon's Luther Williams Field.
He's signed a $51,000 lease for the historic ballpark for three years, with play starting in 2010. It will be a league limited to players who have no more college eligibility but were not drafted. Players will be able to play only for a single season.
All four teams will play at Luther Williams Field.
Larsen, the former GM of the Bridgeport Bluefish (independent; Atlantic League) proposed this before: he approached Harvard, Illinois officials about building a new ballpark there to house a four-team summer-collegiate league. The independent New York State League, led by Jay Acton, attempted something similar at Utica's Murnane Field, but failed to last the summer.
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