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Though city officials were still holding out hope that the Edmonton Prospects (summer collegiate; WCBL) would continue to play at RE/MAX Field despite awarding a lease to a competing group, President Patrick Cassidy confirmed the team would be moving a new Spruce Grove ballpark for the 2022 season. (more…)
It’s been a busy offseason for National Sports Services, first winning a bid in Lafayette (IN) for a rebuilt Loeb Stadium lease and now purchasing a Prospect League expansion team for Sargent’s Stadium at the Point in Johnstown, PA. (more…)
The Lafayette Aviators (summer collegiate; Prospect League) will be playing in the new version of Loeb Stadium set to open for the 2021 season, in a decision announced today by the City of Lafayette and Lafayette Board of Parks & Recreation. (more…)
With a smaller field and plenty of social distancing, the historic National Baseball Congress (NBC) World Series launched yesterday at Wichita State University’s Eck Stadium. (more…)
Turtle Creek Stadium, home of the Traverse City Pit Spitters and host in 2020 of a two-team Northwoods League pod, is your winner in the Best of the Ballparks 2020 summer-collegiate fan vote. (more…)
It’s Duncan Field (Hastings Sodbusters) vs. Turtle Creek Stadium (Traverse City Pit Spitters) in the final of the 2020 Best of the Ballparks fan vote for summer-collegiate facilities. So vote! (more…)
Another sign that 2021 isn’t that far away: we have a name-the-team competition for the new summer-collegiate Prospect League squad operating at Lloyd Hopkins Field in Gordon Moore Park next season. (more…)
We have the name and branding for the new Nanaimo (BC) team entering the summer-collegiate West Coast League in 2021: the Nanaimo NightOwls, with the Nanaimo Bars created as alt branding. (more…)
Northwoods League teams accounted for three of the four slots in the penultimate round of the summer-collegiate Best of the Ballparks 2020 fan vote, as we head toward a final vote next week. So vote! (more…)
With several close votes and five Northwoods League teams advancing, we’re now in the Elite Eight round of the summer collegiate Best of the Ballparks 2020 fan vote. So vote! (more…)
We’ll have a new champion for 2020, as the results of the first round of the summer collegiate Best of the Ballparks 2020 fan vote yielded only a few close votes and plenty of blowouts. So we move on to the Sweet Sixteen round of voting! (more…)
With Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field unavailable because the College of the Holy Cross is closed, Worcester Bravehearts (summer collegiate; Futures League) owner John Creedon is looking for a 2020 temporary home. (more…)
It’s an unusual year in the summer-collegiate world, to be sure, so we’re running an unusual Best of the Ballparks 2020 fan vote for the various facilities hosting league play this summer. (more…)