Ballpark Digest
The Business of Ballparks and Baseball in Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, Indy, Summer Collegiate and College
Another step toward an Atlantic League team at Staten Island’s Richmond County Bank Ballpark in 2022, as the ballpark’s lease was officially transferred to Staten Island Entertainment from the Staten Island Yankees (Short Season A; NY-Penn League). (more…)
The Pioneer League is expanding to Kalispell, MT, for the 2022 season, as the MLB Partner League grows to 10 teams with the additional Flathead Valley franchise. (more…)
Players hate the chain-link leagues. Farm directors are tired of a lack of options about playing time. And no one wants to see a valuable draftee suffer in 100-degree weather in Florida and Arizona. Will we see MiLB changes in coming years to address these problems? (more…)
The MLB Partner League American Association is expanding its playoffs by adding a play-in game between the second- and third-place teams in each division. (more…)
Toronto is not the only pro baseball team to return to Canada this week; two MLB Partner League teams, the Winnipeg Goldeyes (American Association) and Équipe Québec (Frontier League), head north as well. (more…)
After a lot of whispers and planning, it’s official: we will see a Staten Island Atlantic League team playing out of Richmond County Bank Ballpark for the 2022 season, owned by a group led by John Catsimatidis. (more…)
We’re learning more about the investors bringing a new Atlantic League team in 2022 to Staten Island and Richmond County Bank Ballpark, as the group will reportedly include three high-profile Saturday Night Live performers and, on some level, the New York Yankees. (more…)
We’ll see pro baseball in the form of an Atlantic League team return to Staten Island’s Richmond County Bank Ballpark, as negotiations with an investment group led by John Catsimatidis are in the final stages. (more…)
While other entertainment venues and operators have received federal grants after COVID-related losses, MiLB and independent owners were left out in the cold–until now, with a proposed Minor League Baseball Relief Act. (more…)
Your repeat champion in the 2021 Best of the Ballparks MLB Partner Leagues fan vote: Clipper Magazine Stadium, home of the Atlantic League’s Lancaster Barnstormers. (more…)
With Canadian MLB, MiLB, summer-collegiate and Partner Leagues teams playing in the United States because of a closed border, some front-office personnel are holding out hope for a late-season return to home ballparks. (more…)
Your finalists in the 2021 Best of the Ballparks, MLB Partner Leagues fan vote: Clipper Magazine Stadium (Lancaster Barnstormers) vs. Franklin Field (Milwaukee Milkmen). So let the vote begin! (more…)
Why not? The Milwaukee Milkmen (American Association) will take the opposite viewpoint of the milking process and play two games as the Milwaukee Sweet Teats. (more…)