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Category Archives: Promotions
Florence Freedom Invite Cincinnati Bengals To Tryout Camp
The annual list of humorous independent minor league baseball promotions and press releases has started: http://florencefreedom.com/newsnotes.php?nID=151 The Florence Freedom (Frontier League) has invited the Cincinnati Bengals players to attend their independent baseball tryout camp on April 23. The “tongue-in-cheek” humor … Continue reading
Fun Online Promotion
The Southern Illinois Miners have a fun promotion with the local newspaper. If a fan were to fill out his/her March Madness college basketball bracket on Facebook, and win from all of the entries, then the winner gets tickets to … Continue reading
Gateway Grizzlies Offering Fun Way For Fans To Participate
The Gateway Grizzlies independent baseball team in the Frontier League is offering fans a fun way to participate with the team this year: http://gatewaygrizzlies.com/pressbox/current/index.html?article_id=371 Fans can submit their ideas for the new food item to be added to the team’s … Continue reading
Fort Worth Cats License Plates
The Fort Worth Cats are offering Cats-logo Texas license plates. The information can be found on their news page of the team’s website: http://www.fwcats.com/news_archive.cfm Leave a comment if you like this type of promotion to market any independent baseball team.
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St. Paul Saints Whoopie Cushion Night
Last week the St. Paul Saints announced that it will “honor” the Metrodome’s inflation (and “deflation” earlier this month) by having Whoopie Cushion Night on May 14, 2011: http://www.saintsbaseball.com/news/saintsnews/index.html?article_id=1360
63 Year Old Bill Lee Wins Can-Am League Game
Bill Lee, the former Major League pitcher who played from 1969 to 1982, pitched for 5-1/3 innings for the Brockton Rox this weekend. He got the win, and made the front page of Yahoo.com for his efforts: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=sh-billleewins090510 http://proxy.espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/5903/spaceman-flies-again In … Continue reading
Eddie Gaedel Revisited – Part 2
In 2008, the Corpus Christi Beach Dawgs of the Continental Baseball League signed 4-foot-6 wrestler, “Little Kato” (http://www.halfpintbrawlers.com/site/castbios.html ), to a one-game contract. It was supposed to be in honor of Eddie Gaedel who batted for Bill Veeck’s team – … Continue reading
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Bill Lee Signs With Brockton Rox
63 year-old Bill “The Spaceman” Lee has signed a short-term contract with the Brockton Rox of the Can-Am League: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100816&content_id=13530814&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb He pitched for 14 years in the Major Leagues and played his last MLB game in 1982. Feel free to … Continue reading
Lake Erie Crushers Marketing Efforts Article
The Lake Erie Crushers, in recent weeks, have made national headlines by piggy-backing on the LeBron James free agent story. They offered him a contract and then they had a promotion to keep LeBron in Cleveland. What is interesting is … Continue reading
Lebron James Offered Independent Baseball Contract
It was bound to happen this summer: an independent minor league baseball team offering a contract to a known athlete (or celebrity) for the remainder of the season. In this case the Lake Erie Crushers of the Frontier League offered … Continue reading
