The Triple-A International League has unveiled its 2019 Hall of Fame Class, with a contingent of four inductees that includes National Baseball Hall of Famer Bobby Cox. Joining Cox are two-time All-Star Sam Jethroe, two-time batting champion Billy McMillon, and 1992 Sporting News Minor League Executive of the Year Lou Schwechheimer. (more…)
The Wilmington (N.C.) City Council voted to move forward with negotiations on a new downtown ballpark for an Atlanta Braves farm team during its Tuesday night meeting. Per the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) unanimously passed, the city will exclusively negotiate a new ballpark development plan with Mandalay Baseball Properties and the Atlanta Braves over the […]
Former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox has reached out to city officials in Wilmington, N.C. and discussed what it would take to build a new ballpark in the Port City. Cox, now an assistant to Braves GM Frank Wren, has a tie to Wilmington: his granddaughter attends UNC-Wilmington. The meeting, as reported by the StarNews, […]
