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IndependentBaseball.net extends our condolences to those who lost family and friends during the September 11 attacks ten years ago.  Here is the list of those who are remembered today: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62151,00.html

The River City Rascals have decided to change their team name for one night to the River City Wizards.  This promotion is to help former St. Louis Cardinals player Lonnie Maclin.  Ozzie Smith will autograph every Wizards jersey and the … Continue reading →

It appears that Jose Canseco and the Yuma Scorpions are the possible subjects of a fictional movie script called “Centerfield” which shows a player trying to get redemption and return to the Major Leagues through the independent leagues: http://www.yumasun.com/sports/hollywood-71872-scorpions-canseco.html Not … Continue reading →

Evidently, more ugliness has happened with the former manager, hitting coach, and some of the players from the Lake County Fielders situation.    Here are two links of interest: http://www.ballparkdigest.com/201107204027/independent-baseball/news/nal-soap-opera-continues-johnson-lacock-walk-away-second-time http://www.yumasun.com/sports/lacock-71571-johnson-yuma.html While this situation focuses mostly on the coaching staff and … Continue reading →

The Carlsbad Bats are a travel team in the Pecos League, and in recent days they announced that Ryan Powell has become the new player-manager.  It has not yet been added to the CarlsbadBats.com site, but it was mentioned in … Continue reading →

A recent article came out in Winnipeg talking about the perceived lower attendance figures in the American Association than the previous (now folded) Northern League.  The cited article, and reaction from American Association forum fans can be found here: http://nlfan.yuku.com/topic/4197/Lies-Damned-Lies-and-Statistics#.TdmRq1tvDeg

Here are more articles about the possible San Rafael independent professional baseball team which would play in 2012 in the North American League: http://www.foxreno.com/news/27710555/detail.html http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2011/04/san-rafael-baseball.html http://pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=3056

The first round of updates to this site for the 2011 season include: Removing the “Front Office” page tab because, for some reason, it was not loading properly on certain web browsers Replacing that page with a new one called … Continue reading →

Many people were having difficulty in recent weeks with the loading time of this site, so a new look-and-feel was added to improve page loading time on your end (hopefully!).  If you notice any broken links or other concerns then … Continue reading →