Today the California League presented the commemorative 75th anniversary logo next to the news that the league will host the Carolina League in the All Star Game. This year the California League will celebrate its 75th anniversary. Founded in 1941 as a class C league the league folded during the 1942 season because of the…
The East Dixie League was a spin off from the 1933 Dixie League. That league played for one year and split up in the East Dixie League and the West Dixie League. The Dixie League was a mix of teams from Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. The teams from Louisana, Arkansas and Mississippi moved to…
Through the decades minor league clubs have been moving from one town to another. But it appears to me that teams are (still) moving rather easily when other towns try to lure them with public funded stadiums. Often other public funded stadiums are left behind and so is the community. Sometimes independent leagues jump in to fill…
The Dixie Association was a cooperation between the Southern League and the Texas League in 1971. As both leagues lost a team after the 1970 season, both leagues were left with an uneven number of teams. To overcome this problem the leagues decided to join forces and to have an interlocking schedule. The problems arose…
The Binghamton Mets, AA affiliate of the New York Mets in the Eastern League, tweeted a promotion the other day. The intention was to advertise a nice promotion on a game day but the term they used for it has a kind of inappropriate meaning. The B-Mets wanted to invite their fans to a nice…
Today a league that I have never heard of before. The Delta League was founded in 1904 and had a class D rating. The league operated in the state of Mississippi. The league started as a four team league but after one week into the season, two teams were added: Hattiesburg and Canton. There are…
Today my contribution to the Blogathon against cancer was posted on www.baseballcontinuum.com. This Blogathon is organized by blog owner Dan J. Glickman to raise money for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Former Red Sox farmhand gives a hand in battle against cancer For this first Blogathon for charity it seemed a good idea to me to…
The only affiliated minor league club in Canada, the Vancouver Canadians (A Short Season, Northwest League) has signed a PDC extension with the only MLB club in Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays through the 2018 season. In the past season, the Canadians set an attendance record with 215,595 fans that passed the turnstiles of Nat…
The South Dakota League and the Dakota League were one and the same league that changed names twice during its existence from 1920-1923. The South Dakota League was founded in 1920 as a class D league. In that first year, the league contained eight teams, all from South Dakota. Cities represented: Aberdeen, SD: Aberdeen Boosters…
This is far from Dutch baseball news, but it sure is worth mentioning because you hardly hear anything about Lithuanian baseball. Lithuanian right handed pitcher, Dovydas Neverauskas has received an invitation for the MLB Spring Training camp of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 23-year old will report at Bradenton, the Pirates ST facility and also home of…
