Our next stop on the 2022 Ballpark Digest Awards season tour: The 2022 Ballpark Digest Broadcaster of the Year is Adam Marco, Voice of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Triple-A; International League). (more…)

Our next stop on the 2022 Ballpark Digest Awards season tour: The 2022 Ballpark Digest Broadcaster of the Year is Adam Marco, Voice of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Triple-A; International League). (more…)
As a fan, I love the sounds of baseball–spikes echoing down a tunnel, a ball exploding into a mitt, the crack when a batter catches one right. As a broadcaster, I love the words of baseball. That love prompted me to I compile as many words as I could find into a baseball thesaurus, the better […]
Three years after we profiled her among four women excelling as MiLB broadcasters, Melanie Newman is the 2021 Ballpark Digest Award winner for MLB Broadcaster of the Year, honoring her work delivering the call of Baltimore Orioles games on MASN and 105.7 The Fan. (more…)
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. […]
With the proposed contraction of 42 Minor League Baseball teams, the relationship between MiLB and MLB could be defined yet again. Here’s a look at the last time MiLB contraction occurred on a mass scale—and how differently the major actors worked together to save the sport. (more…)
Every baseball field has a distinct personality beyond its 60 feet, six inches to the mound and its 90 feet separating each base, shining with the life of its history, its environment, and its fans. This weekend marks the start of the 2019 college baseball season, and the most spirited and unique fan sections in the […]
We end 2018 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, #5: Copa de la Diversión rebrands 33 Minor League Baseball teams to great success. (more…)
Ballpark Digest annually honors the team executing the best rebranding, from design to reception. This year is different: There is one winner, with 33 different teams represented. Minor League Baseball’s Copa de La Diversión was an ambitious nationwide campaign and overwhelming success, earning our Best New Logo(s)/Branding of the Year citation. (more…)
The Ballpark Digest Awards not only honor the very best annually in professional baseball, they spotlight those individuals putting in the extra effort to pave new, successful passages on top of their other triumphs. Announcing our 2018 Ballpark Digest MLB Broadcaster of the Year: Pat Hughes, voice of the Chicago Cubs. (more…)
Kirsten Karbach volunteered at her college radio station in Florida. Emma Tiedemann’s grandfather handed her his headset at a college basketball game in Texas. Melanie Newman pursued photojournalism in Alabama. And Suzie Cool juggled six jobs in Pennsylvania. (more…)
This was a busy year for Tim Heiman, who called games at a high quality, handled the heavy media relations requests that came from having Tim Tebow on his roster, and introduced the Eastern League Calls of the Week, which he produced, scripted, hosted and dispersed. (more…)
In 2016, the first-year Savannah Bananas were named the Coastal Plain League Organization of the Year after setting a new single-season league attendance record (91,004), and owners Jesse and Emily Cole were named Coastal Plain League Executives of the Year. (more…)
We end 2017 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, #10: The Pawtucket Red Sox’s ongoing search for a new ballpark. (more…)