Last year was a record one for Minor League Baseball, recording than $60.3 million in licensed retail sales for all 160 teams, as MiLB also releases a list of the Top 25 teams in merchandise sales. (more…)
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RubberDucks to host 2016 Eastern League All-Star Game
The Akron RubberDucks and Canal Park will host the 2016 Eastern League All-Star Game. This will be the first time the franchise has hosted the All-Star Game since it relocated to Northeast Ohio in 1989. (more…)
RubberDucks schedule Dave Appreciation Night
Talk about purely random: the Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League) are hosting Dave Appreciation Night on Friday, honoring a Dave of the Game — Dave Szucs, to be exact. (more…)
CBS Sports Network to highlight 10 MiLB games
Some great games on the docket for CBS Sports Network in 2015, as the network will televise 10 marquee Minor League Baseball regular-season games for the second season. (more…)
Not Your Routine Poutine in Akron
Today’s food news, part 2: The Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League) unveiled their three remaining extreme food items for 2015, including a truly extreme salad, poutine and an oversized sub. (more…)
White Castles to be offered to sober people at Canal Park
We have a new food offering at Canal Park, home of the Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League) this season: White Castle sliders. (more…)
Akron schedules “Brian Williams’ Pants-on-Fire Night”
Riffing off the news: the Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League) have scheduled “Brian Williams’ Pants-on-Fire Night” for April 27. (more…)
Akron’s Ken Babby new BIRCO chairman
We have a new chairman for Minor League Baseball’s Baseball Internet Rights Company (BIRCO), as Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League) owner Ken Babby takes the reins from Art Matin. (more…)
2014 Logo/Branding of the Year: Akron RubberDucks
It was an edgy approach to a new team identity, but the unveiling of new Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League) logos and marks certainly led to a successful 2014 for the team — making them our choice for Best Logo/Branding in our annual awards. (more…)
Egan nabs Eastern League Exec of the Year award
Altoona Curve GM Rob Egan has been named the 2014 Eastern League Executive of the Year, as the league also announced nominees for year-end MiLB awards. (more…)
Personnel news in Frederick, Akron, Colorado Springs, Reading, CPL
We have personnel news to pass along from the Frederick Keys (High Class A; Carolina League), Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League), Colorado Springs Sky Sox (Class AAA; Pacific Coast League), Reading Fightin Phils (Class AA; Eastern League) and the summer-collegiate Coastal Plain League. (more…)
Attendance news: Akron RubberDucks up almost 16 percent in ’14
A second straight year of attendance hikes for the Akron RubberDucks (Class AA; Eastern League), as the team enjoyed a 15.7 percent rise in 2014 over 2013 at Canal Park. This season’s total attendance was 350,704 in 68 openings, a 15.7 percent increase over 2013’s total attendance of 295,459 in 70 openings. That rise is […]
Great ballpark crowds greet Independence Day games
Record crowds in Albuquerque and Winston-Salem, a record-setting homestand in Colorado Springs, over 6,000 fans braving the cresting Mississippi River in Davenport, and sellouts in Omaha, Richmond and Birmingham were among the attendance highlights on the Fourth of July. Really, there’s nothing more American than a night at the ballpark, followed by fireworks. (We spent […]