In the Atlantic League (independent) af few remarkable promotions will take place. The first one is not really a promotion but an experiment. But it is marketed as a family friendly promotion. The Southern Maryland BlueCrabs will play a seven inning instead of nine inning game. This is quite remarkable since the Atlantic League season…
After a few tough years the independent CanAm League is on it’s way back. During the last few years several teams folded (Newark Bears and Pittsfield Colonials ) or moved to different leagues (Brockton Rox) so the league only contained four teams. In 2011 the league announced that it would have an interlocking schedule with…
Curt Smith, first baseman of the Dutch National team became a free agent after the 2014 season. He had spent the season with the Cardinals’ AA affiliation in Springfield MO of the Texas League. Smith signed a deal with the independent Lincoln SaltDogs of the American Association. Smith played for the SaltDogs before. In 2011…
When the Portland Beavers left Portland for Spokane at the end of the 1972 season, ex minor leaguer and tv actor Bing Russell, father of Kurt Russell, jumped in with an independent team. This was not a coincidence. Russell starred for years in the TV series Bonanza, which was cancelled in 1972. The team joined…
Today I bumped into an article about Peter Kirk, president of the independent Atlantic League. In an interview Kirk stated that he is interested in placing an Atlantic League team in Cuba. It is not that this idea comes all of a sudden due to the recent diplomatic developments between the USA and Cuba. Two…
