The Salem Red Sox (High Class A; Carolina League) will call Lewis-Gale Field home through the 2014 season, as the team and the city of Salem worked out a four-year lease extension starting this year. “With an improving economy and the Red Sox’s championship brand of baseball, I not only hope we continue the tradition […]
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Keys expand game broadcasts with 1450AM The Source
The Frederick Keys (High Class A; Carolina League) will have all 140 games broadcast on the radio for the first time in a decade, as the team signs a deal with 1450AM The Source to serve as the official flagship station for Keys baseball in 2011. The Source also will air Keys post-season games as […]
Blue Rocks highlight healthy kids with new promotion
The Wilmington Blue Rocks (High Class A; Carolina League) are addressing the troublesome issue of childhood obesity with a Happy Healthy Kids promotion for the 2011 season. Every kid taking a healthy-eating pledge will receive one ticket and a healthy snack pack for a select Blue Rocks game, as well as a fitness activity before […]
Keys: We want to stay in Frederick
The management of the Frederick Keys (High Class A; Carolina League) issued an open letter to local baseball fans today, calling for public support of the affiliated franchise at a time when the city is planning to let the lease to Harry Grove Stadium up for bid. If the ballpark lease is put up to […]
Rau new assistant GM of K-Tribe
The Kinston Indians (High Class A; Carolina League) have a new assistant general manager: Matthew Rau, a native of Fargo who worked the past six seasons for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks (independent; American Association). “Matt is a wonderful addition to the front office,” said K-Tribe General Manager Benjamin Jones. “He is a former college baseball player […]
Frederick: Affiliated team to have advantage in ballpark bidding
An affiliated team will have an advantage in the bidding for Harry Grove Stadium, currently the home of the Frederick Keys (High Class A; Carolina League), according to city officials prepping the bid package. The city has been working on a bid specification since the beginning of the year, and it’s a tightrope: on the […]
WSSU to play home games at BB&T Ballpark
College baseball comes to BB&T Ballpark this season, as the Winston-Salem Dash (High Class A; Carolina League) and Winston-Salem State University have entered into an agreement for the WSSU baseball team to play the majority of its 2011 home schedule at BB&T Ballpark. Winston-Salem State University, which is fielding a baseball team for the first […]
Frederick to put ballpark lease to bid; Keys on market
City officials in Frederick, Md. are preparing specifications in anticipation of letting the lease to Harry Grove Stadium, home of the Frederick Keys (High Class A; Carolina League), out to bid for 2012 and beyond — inconvenient timing, considering the team is now for sale. City officials say they’re finishing the specs for the ballpark, […]
Ballpark Visit: Harry Grove Stadium / Frederick Keys
When it opened in 1990, Harry Grove Stadium was state of the art when it came to things like suites and an open concourse. Today, despite some TLC from the city and the owners of the Frederick Keys in recent years, Harry Grove Stadium is now just a decent, well-run but low-key ballpark in a […]
Bottom-shelf-booze magnate making play for Mets?
Martin J. Silver, whose Long Island-based Star Industries is a prime purveyor of fine spirits like Georgi Vodka and Carnabys Gin, says he’s willing to invest in the New York Mets with the Wilpons, forced to seek a minority investor because of potential financial problems. Silver, an investor in the Wilmington Blue Rocks (High Class […]
Carolina League to expand in 2012? Probably not
Carolina League President John Hopkins says he wants to see his league expand by two teams for the 2012 season to accommodate a return of the circuit to Kinston — statements that will probably be well-received in that city as the K-Tribe embarks on a lame-duck season, but we’re not sure his sentiments are shared […]
Dash makes scheduled ballpark payment
The Winston-Salem Dash (High Class A; Carolina League) and Brookstown Development Partners made a scheduled rent payment of $355,053 on BB&T Ballpark yesterday, pushing this year’s payments to almost $1.2 million. The yearly payments are a combination of rent and ticket surchages imposed when the city financed the final construction of the ballpark. Critics of […]
Jones new GM in Kinston
Benjamin Jones, the successful general manager of the Wilson Tobs (summer collegiate; Coastal Plain League), is the new general manager of the Kinston Indians (High Class A; Carolina League). He replaces Shari Massengill, who reunited with North Johnson when she accepted the assisant GM position with the Gwinnett Braves (Class AAA; International League). “We are […]