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The awarding of Ballpark Digest’s Broadcaster of the Year is a highly competitive honor, one that takes into account the skill, diligence and innovation that a broadcaster shows both on and off the airwaves. The 2021 Ballpark Digest Awards choice for Broadcaster of the Year is someone who exemplifies this balance: the Voice of the Amarillo Sod Poodles (Double-A Central), Sam Levitt. […]
After a slow start to the season, we’re seeing teams leaning into notable promotional efforts. Another case in point: The Amarillo Sod Poodles (Double-A Central) are hosting Luau Night at Hodgetown tomorrow night, with jerseys auctioned off for charity. (more…)
The Double-A Amarillo Sod Poodles and San Antonio Missions will once again field teams in the summer-collegiate Texas Collegiate League, while the High-A Winston-Salem Dash is hosting the Carolina Disco Turkeys. (more…)
The Arizona Diamondbacks unveiled their new 2021 affiliate lineup, keeping three relationships and adding the Amarillo Sod Poodles (Texas League) as their Class AA affiliate. (more…)
It was Blue Wahoos Stadium over Hodgetown in the final round of the Best of the Ballparks 2020 vote, as fans chose the home of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos (Southern League) as their favorite Double-A facility. (more…)
Another Double-A midsummer classic is gone: the Texas League has canceled its 2020 All-Star Game, but host Amarillo Sod Poodles will now host the 2021 game at Hodgetown. (more…)
The Amarillo Sod Poodles (Class AA; Texas League) have unveiled uniforms for Pointy Boots de Amarillo, their Copa de la Diversión alter ego for the 2020 season. The team plans to play as the Pointy Boots for 10 specialty games. (more…)
We end 2019 with a countdown of the 10 biggest stories of the year on Ballpark Digest, as chosen by editors and partially based on page views. Today, #7: It was a bumper year for new MiLB ballparks in Las Vegas, Amarillo and Fayetteville. (more…)
After successfully debuting Hodgetown in 2019, the Amarillo Sod Poodles will host the 2020 Texas League All-Star Game at the ballpark on June 23. (more…)
The Amarillo Sod Poodles have been named the 2019 Texas League Organization of the Year, as voted on by executives from the league’s eight clubs. With the announcement, the Texas League champion Sod Poodles swept the Organization, Executive and Manager of the Year awards. (more…)
Two season-end awards have been handed out, as Everett AquaSox General Manager Danny Tetzlaff claims Northwest League Executive of the Year, while Amarillo Sod Poodles President and General Manager Tony Ensor wins 2019 Bill Valentine Texas League Executive of the Year. (more…)
We have a winner in the 2019 MiLB Best of the Ballparks Double-A competition, as fans chose Hodgetown, home of the Amarillo Sod Poodles, over Peoples Natural Gas Field, home of the Altoona Curve, by a 53-47% margin. (more…)
With an enthusiastic over-capacity crowd on hand to cheer every move, the Amarillo Sod Poodles (Class AA; Texas League) opened Hodgetown Monday night with an extra-innings loss—but the crowd surely went home happy. (more…)