It’s not a new idea, but it’s back up for planning: the independent Atlantic League is once again looking at starting a second circuit that would focus on smaller venues and funnel players to the existing league. At one point there were discussions with the independent Can-Am League about serving this purpose, but the parameters of […]
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The challenge at Wahconah: Bringing back baseball fans
With several teams operating out of Pittsfield’s historic Wahconah Park in past years, the big challenge for the management of the new Pittsfield Suns (summer collegiate; Futures League) will be reassuring jittery fans. In the last decade we’ve seen a parade of independent and summer-collegiate teams march through the historic facility, where baseball has been […]
FCBL expands to Pittsfield, Old Orchard Beach, Wachusett
The summer-collegiate Futures Collegiate Baseball League is adding at at least three teams to its lineup for the 2012 season, adding teams at Wahconah Park, Old Orchard Beach Ballpark and Doyle Field. Two of the three new teams will play in former minor-league venues. Jeff Goldklang, on behalf of the Goldklang Group, landed the rights […]
Selig: “I really believe that Abner Doubleday is the ‘father of baseball’”
Yeah, there’s a lot of glee in the baseball-geek world these days: In a letter to a collector, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig admits he still thinks Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball, despite reams of evidence to the contrary. Lots of snark has ensued. Selig made his beliefs known in a letter to autograph […]