MKE Sports & Entertainment, the group seeking to build a new independent-league ballpark in the Milwaukee suburbs, has signed a deal to manage the Rockford Aviators (independent; Frontier League) in 2015. Mike Zimmerman, who ultimately failed to convince Franklin (Wis.) officials to finance a new ballpark at his Rock Sports Complex for a Frontier League […]
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Rockford Foresters to play as road team in ’13
The Rockford Foresters (summer collegiate; Midwest Collegiate League) will play as a road team in 2013 after losing the lease for Marinelli Field to the Rockford Aviators (independent; Frontier League). The Foresters played at Marinelli Field for three seasons (2010-2012). No word on what baseball will be played at the former home of Midwest League […]
Foresters to offer free ducats to Rockford unemployed
The Rockford Foresters (summer collegiate; Midwest Baseball League) will offer free admission to a game this coming season to the unemployed, building on a promotion launched last season. On game days, fans that are unemployed can get two free tickets to a game at Marinelli Field simply by showing their Illinois Department of Employment Security […]
Goodbye, Great Plains Baseball League; hello, Midwest Collegiate League
The summer-collegiate Great Plains League is no more, replaced with a new name — the Midwest Collegiate League — designed to better reflect the league’s footprint for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The league lineup: the Chicago Zephyrs (playing out of Judson University), Homestead Ranchers (playing out of Grosche Field), Rockford Foresters (playing out of […]