After years of looking for options and negotiations, the Richmond Flying Squirrels have signed a stadium deal. The team signed a 30-year contract with the Richmond Economic Development. After the Jay Littleton Ballpark fire, also some good ballpark news. The club will move into a new $117 million stadium to be built just south of…
As MLB teams are informed about their 2021 (and beyond) affiliations, several teams are not happy with the new alignments. The San Francisco Giants for example are losing their A-Short Season (previously A Full Season) team in Augusta and their AA team in Richmond. The new ballpark of the Augusta GreenJackets was constructed after the…
Back in 2014, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origin of minor league team names. Since then, the minor league landscape has changed a lot. Clubs moved, adopted new names. All reasons to have a new series in which the new names are added and explained. This time the letter: R Rancho…
Another rebranding on its way. The Connecticut Tigers announced they will rebrand for the 2020 season. The team has started a website for fan input. Since the team came to Norwich in 2020, the team is named Tigers after the parent club as the team took the name with it when it left Oneonta. Because…
On July 20, 2019, it will be fifty years ago that the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. This historic event will be commemorated by the Richmond Flying Squirrels with a special space suit themed jersey. The special space suit jerseys are inspired by the suits that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore on their…
The city of Richmond Va, the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the Richmond Flying Squirrels have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding a new ballpark in Richmond. It would be a boulevard area ballpark with a price tag of $50 MM – $60 MM. This was all presented in yesterday’s press release of the…
This blog post is about players from Curacao that have made steps at Advanced Rookie League or higher. I lost track of some of them, so it is time to place them in the limelight. After a long period on the inactive list, John Polonius is finally playing again. After a rehab stint with the…
A few months ago you could read an article about the Richmond Flying Squirrels and their quest for a new stadium in or near Richmond. Especially after the city had said the the club better started looking for a location outside the city’s boundaries. But in an article of the Richmond Times-Dispatch it was stated…
If you thought that there wasn’t enough minor league news in the previous article, here is some more. The San Francisco Giants and the Richmond Flying Squirrels have extended their Player Development Contract. With the contract extended through the 2020 season, the cooperation between the two clubs will be seventeen years old then. In 2003…
The Hartford Yard Goats will start their season on the road. Recently you could read here that the new stadium, Dunkin’ Donuts Park, will not be ready in time. It looks like that the delay will be about a month. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Last season the stadium of the Biloxi Shuckers wasn’t ready in…
