In a surprising announcement on Instagram, the Spire City Ghost Hounds announced the team will sit out the 2024 Atlantic League season. It all has to do with an upcoming expansion of the league in 2024. WIth this expansion, the number of teams will be uneven, and therefore the league asked one of the teams…
The new Atlantic League team that will play in Richmond County Bank Ballpark, the ballpark of the former Staten Island Yankees, has presented its new moniker and new logos. The team will be called the Staten Island FerryHawks. After a name the team contest, the name was part of a fan vote together with Harbor…
It is time for another anti-MLB rant. Why? Because the vile organization has made clear that Atlantic League players may be banned from all of affiliated and partner league baseball in the US and Canada, if they opt out of their contract now the mound in the Atlantic League has been pushed back to 62…
Recently, you could read here about the likelihood of a Staten Island team joining the Atlantic League in 2022. Slowly more becomes clear about the new owner group. One of the partial owners will make your jaw drop. According to Ballparkdigest, three high profiled Saturday Night Life performers will be part of the new owner…
With the Staten Island Yankees being abandoned by their MLB namesake and MLB, the borough of Staten Island lost a baseball team as the Staten Island Yankees threw the towel. But now it seems that the independent Atlantic League will return to Richmond County Bank Ballpark, the former New York-Penn League ballpark. According to ballparkdigest.com,…
The newest team in professional baseball and one of the newest in the Atlantic League, the Gastonia Honey Hunters have unveiled their new uniforms yesterday. Nice looking uniforms with some even nicer twists. The Gaston Gazette was one of the first to show the new uniforms. The team comes up with three uniforms: An all…
One of the teams that was left alone by its parent club recently, has found a new home. The former Pittsburgh Pirates A Full season affiliate, West Virginia Power has joined the “independent” Atlantic League. After MLB cut 40 MiLB teams to safe the MLB owners $700,000 per year, several teams took their time to…
The word is out. Yesterday the Lexington Legends tweeted about big news that was to be announced today. Of course the baseball fan knew it was about the future of the team. Today, in another (noisy) tweet, the club announced the league it will join. You've been patient. The wait is over. The new league…
Today the newest member of the independent Atlantic League unveiled its name. The city of Gastonia has a history of professional baseball but had a team in the collegiate Coastal Plain League in the past years. But the team did not draw well, partially because of poor management. But today, a new chapter in Gastonia…
The High Point Rockers of the independent Atlantic League have traded Dutch outfielder/slugger Kalian Sams to the Sussex County Miners of the CanAm League. The trade completed a trade made on January twelve. Back then, the Rockers took over Breeland Almadova for a player to be named later, which appeared to be Sams. Sams’ numbers…
