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Wild Couple Of Days In Independent Baseball

The past couple of days has been wild in terms of the independent minor league baseball business.  In the coming days you will get links to everything.  For now, Bob Wirz’s article does a good job of summing up everything … Continue reading

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Rumors Of Independent Baseball Leagues Realignment

In recent weeks there have been rumors of realignment in the independent baseball leagues in order to reduce travel costs.  Having been in several league meetings over the years, it is true that cutting travel costs either with sponsorships and/or … Continue reading

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New Information Added To Independent Baseball Site

In order to give you, the baseball fan, more information pertaining to the independent minor league professional baseball industry IndependentBaseball.net has added a few additional pieces of information: More posts on the right-hand sidebar from Bob Wirz’s Indy Baseball Chatter … Continue reading

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New York Times Article About Kevin Millar Returning To Independent Baseball

Kevin Millar is going to return to play for the St. Paul Saints (American Association), and the New York Times did an article on him recently: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/sports/baseball/07millar.html Hopefully Kevin’s experience between independent baseball in 1993 and 2010 will be recorded … Continue reading

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Independent Baseball Inter-league Exhibition Results

Here is a video recapping this past week’s results of the independent baseball inter-league exhibition series between the Kansas City T-Bones (Northern League) and the Grand Prairie Airhogs (American Association): http://www.ktka.com/videos/2010/may/06/29428/

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Opening Days For Independent Baseball Leagues

Here are the Opening Days for the independent baseball leagues: American Association:  May 13 Atlantic League:  already started Can-Am League:  May 27 Continental League:  May 6 Frontier League:  May 20 Golden League:  May 19 Northern League:  May 20 United League:  … Continue reading

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Independent League Baseball In 1987

Most people generally consider independent baseball leagues, as we know them today, to have started in 1993 with the Northern League and Frontier League.  In actuality, professional independent league baseball has an interesting history.  Many independently-owned teams were playing in … Continue reading

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Possible New Independent League

Here is some news about a possible new independent baseball league starting in Macon, Georgia this summer: http://www.macon.com/local/story/979261.html http://ballparkbiz.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/indy-baseball-in-the-south-rises-again/ Whether or not this league comes to fruition is still to be determined.  An e-mail to the new league’s president was … Continue reading

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Question For Fans Of Independent Baseball Leagues

With the independent professional baseball industry about to enter its 18th year as we know it (starting in 1993), the industry has reached some tangible achievements: Many independent baseball teams, for one reason or another, have been featured in publications like … Continue reading

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