The independent American West Baseball League will go dark in 2013, with CEO Michael Cummings resigning and Sean Smock assigned to pick up the pieces for 2014. Of course, once a league goes dark it rarely comes back. And in the case of the American West Baseball League, we’re talking about an outfit that would […]
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New for 2013: Las Cruces Sun Rays
The newest team in the independent American West Baseball League has a logo and a name: the Las Cruces Sun Rays. No other information was released, apart from the fact that team is playing in Apodaca Park, a former Pecos League facility. “We are excited to begin this new professional baseball endeavor in Las Cruces […]
Ferguson walks away from AWBL
Tim Ferguson and the independent American West Baseball League have split ways, as the Yuma Desert Rats have folded before playing a single game at Desert Sun Stadium. What this means for the 2013 season remains to be seen. The AWBL already scrapped a winter league to be run out of Yuma, and while Ferguson […]
New for 2013: Long Beach Splash
We have a name and logo for the team launching next season in the independent American West Baseball League: the Long Beach Splash. “I am very pleased with the outcome of the logo it has been done with class, shows professionalism and immediately lets the public know who the team is,” said Michael Cummings, AWBL Chief […]
AWBL logo unveiled
The startup independent American West Baseball League, launched by Godfather Media, has unveiled its logo in anticipation of a 2013 debut. “I am very pleased with the outcome of the logo it has been done with class, shows professionalism and immediately lets the public know who we are as a league,” said Michael Cummings, Godfather […]
Smock first commissioner of AWBL
The folks at the American West Baseball League are moving fast, naming Sean Smock as the independent circuit’s first commissioner. Smock is a veteran of the Golden Baseball League, one of the predecessors to the North American League and where the AWBL owners have roots. Smock first worked for the Tucson Sidewinders (Class AAA; Pacific […]
Godfather Media launches new indy league
Fresh from a divorce with the North American League, Godfather Media — owner of the Yuma Panthers and Orange County Flyers — is launching its own indy circuit, the American West Baseball League. The American West Baseball League, or AWBL, will be run both as a summer independent league and a fall and winter instructional league, according to […]
Yuma, OC out of NAL; two replacements in the works
Despite losing the Yuma Panthers and Orange County Flyers, the independent North American League will add teams in Hawaii and Sonoma County to stay with four Northern Division teams. According to San Rafael Pacifics President/GM Mike Shapiro, work is underway to find new homes for new teams, with discussions occurring with a variety of venues; Na Koa […]
Yuma owner acquires NAL Fullerton franchise
We have a final lineup for the 2012 independent North American League season, as the owner of the circuit’s Yuma franchise is taking over the Orange County Flyers. The team, which was dormant last season, has played most of its history at Goodwin Stadium at the Cal State-Fullerton campus. An attempt to build a new ballpark […]
Diamond Sports walks away from North American League management
Diamond Sports and Entertainment, which founded the independent Golden Baseball League and formed the North American League via merger, has walked away from the circuit as league management. Kevin Outcalt, the league commissioner who was part of the original Golden Baseball League, left the organization on March 7, according to a press release issued by […]
New for 2012: Yuma Panthers
The Yuma Scorpions are no more, as owners of the independent North American League team are rebranding the franchise as the Yuma Panthers. The announcement came when team ownership in the form of Godfather Media executives met with the local press and outlined their plans to take the team public. Godfather Media already trades over the […]
NAL sells Yuma Scorpions in stock transaction
The independent North American League has sold the Yuma Scorpions and other operating considerations to Godfather Media for five million shares in the firm’s OTC stock, valued at $200,000. Godfather Media, Inc,. based in Mission Viejo, Cal, acquired 100 percent of the assets of the Scorpions, as well the right of first refusal to the […]
Na Koa Ikaika Maui owners seek new money, will return in 2011: owner
Fresh off an inaugural season that saw 50,343 fans pass through the turnstiles at Maehara Stadium, the Na Koa Ikaika Maui (independent; Golden Baseball League) owners are seeking new investors to help cover the losses sustained in 2010. Running a pro sports team in Hawaii isn’t cheap: travel costs are a killer, even on a […]