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Here is an article about the Froniter League’s Oakland County Cruisers being on the road for most of the 2010 season:

• http://www.ballparkdigest.com/news/index.html?article_id=2332

Resources for those involved with baseball at any level:

If you, or someone you know, is a youth baseball parent and frustrated with the experience then click here: Youth Baseball Parents

If you, or someone you, want guidance from actual independent minor league baseball executives on how to succeed in the independent minor leagues then click here: Independent Baseball Advice Interviews

If you simply want to find out about independent minor league baseball tryouts then click here: Independent Minor League Baseball Tryouts Notification List

If you, or someone you care about, want to improve the mental game of baseball then click here: Improving Your Baseball Mental Game

If you, or someone you know, need to improve your 60 yard dash time then click here: Click Here

Click this link if you, or someone you know, need baseball equipment which occasionally is on sale and/or offers free shipping (check the site for any such incentives):

Here is an article about the new coaching staff for the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League:

• http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/localsports/03-25-2010-wild-things-hire-coaches

Resources for those involved with baseball at any level:

If you, or someone you know, is a youth baseball parent and frustrated with the experience then click here: Youth Baseball Parents

If you, or someone you, want guidance from actual independent minor league baseball executives on how to succeed in the independent minor leagues then click here: Independent Baseball Advice Interviews

If you simply want to find out about independent minor league baseball tryouts then click here: Independent Minor League Baseball Tryouts Notification List

If you, or someone you care about, want to improve the mental game of baseball then click here: Improving Your Baseball Mental Game

If you, or someone you know, need to improve your 60 yard dash time then click here: Click Here

Click this link if you, or someone you know, need baseball equipment which occasionally is on sale and/or offers free shipping (check the site for any such incentives):

Here is an article about a unique and fun way that the Lake Erie Crushers of the Frontier League are using social media:

• http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3974272

Hopefully this is not their only tactic, and that social media (in fun uses) becomes a staple of the independent minor league baseball industry.

Todd Marlin was the General Manager of the Bridgeport Bluefish until a few days ago. He now has accepted a role as Managing Director with the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League.

His background was with teams in the Atlantic League and Can-Am League before his new venture with the Frontier League. You can read more here:

http://www.ballparkdigest.com/news/index.html?article_id=1950

Billy Richards will be the new Assistant General Manager of the Frontier League’s Southern Illinois Miners.

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3923018

The Frontier League announced that Steve Tahsler, formerly with the Windy City Thunderbolts, is now going to be the deputy commissioner of the Frontier League:

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3922759

At the time of this post, the Independent Baseball Teams page reflects those teams which played in 2009.  For the 2010 season, a few new teams have been announced; and the Teams page will reflect those changes when every independent baseball league announces its 2010 teams.

One of the new teams being added is the Normal Cornbelters (Normal, IL) and they will play in the Frontier League.   These links will help you discover more about the Cornbelters until the Teams page reflects all changes:

• Normal Cornbelters official site
• Wikipedia site

Earlier today, IndependentBaseball.net received a press release from ESPN which reads as follows:

ESPN’s award-winning primetime newsmagazine E:60
will feature the heartwarming story of a minor league baseball
player who brightened the lives of some senior citizens in the episode
airing Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. ET. The program, which launched in
October 2007, combines investigative reporting, in-depth profiles of
intriguing sports personalities and features on emerging star athletes.
These stories are presented in a fresh and innovative format that
incorporates producer/correspondent meetings.

Like many young men, Josh Faiola is chasing his dream of one day playing
Major League Baseball. After his release from the Baltimore Orioles
organization this spring, Faiola caught on with the Lake Erie Crushers
(Avon, Ohio) of the independent Frontier League. Because the league’s
players are paid so little, most players live with local host families
who volunteer to take a player into their home for the summer. But
Faiola’s found a different kind of host family – an assisted living
facility with 28 senior citizens with an average age of 83. E:60 follows
Faiola and the residents of the facility through the summer, documenting
one young man chasing his baseball dream, and the effect that dream had
on his new family of surrogate grandparents.

Here is a story about the retirement of an independent pro baseball pitcher from the Traverse City Beach Bums:   http://www.crescent-news.com/news/article/4678194