PCL Opening Day: 1953
It was the opening of the baseball season in America. As major league teams wrapped up their respective spring trainings and prepared to throw their opening pitch of the 1953 season in a few weeks...
View ArticleRemembering Charlie “King Kong” Keller
Charles E. “King Kong†Keller was born on September 12, 1916 in Middletown, Maryland. An outfielder, Keller played baseball and basketball at the University of Maryland where he earned a degree in...
View ArticleWho Will Be Next to Majors? Lindsey Stays Hot, Weber Warming Up
Michael Ryan had not been in the majors since 2005 until joining the Angels last weekend, and Cuban-born Raul Valdez had never been there until the New York Mets added the onetime Can-Am Leaguer (New...
View ArticleOakland Takes Three More Atlantic Leaguers, Building Recent Total to Five and...
It seems a little like a runaway freight train the way Oakland has swooped into the Atlantic League for player talent, and all of a sudden the Athletics have moved past Philadelphia as the major league...
View ArticleRare Home Run Feats by Nava and Guerrero Make It Tough for Others to Take...
Two extraordinary feats, both a few days old now, continue to take much of the thunder away from everything else that is happening in Independent Baseball. They deserve the attention because the...
View ArticleHe Uses ‘The Only Sane Part of My Body’ to Throw Batting Practice
It often seems that when we dig deeper a story gets more interesting. That certainly has been the case this summer in the process of trying to find the best possible information for this Notebook. Â...
View ArticleIt Is the Turn-Around Series in Atlantic League Finals
Like any other championship series time, there is no shortage of angles to the Bridgeport-York set starting Wednesday to decide the 2010 Atlantic League champion. The obvious approach to the...
View ArticleLindsey Looms Large Even With New Indy Players Appearing
We have pinpointed at least two worthy candidates who could break into the major leagues for the first time in 2011, but even if they make it they will have some distance to travel before they nudge...
View ArticleIndies Have Banner Day With Five Taken In Draft
While Boston’s apparent signing of Carl Crawford seemed certain to steal the spotlight on the last day of the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Thursday also was a banner day for Independent Baseball. No...
View Article‘Extra Outfielder’ Now a Hitting Star
    In forging their way to the best record in the Atlantic League, the Long Island (NY) Ducks have relied on the talents of such established players at this level of play as John Rodriguez, Lew...
View ArticleIndy Domination? It Was in This Eastern League Game With Mates Getting Win,...
Independent Baseball players who have had their contracts purchased by major league organizations seem to understand what a neat little fraternity they have. They are in the minority on affiliated...
View Article‘Cookie-Cutter’ Approach Out the Window As Mark Mason Develops Pitchers
Mark Mason has been unusually busy in recent days as interim manager of the Atlantic League’s two-time defending champion York (PA) Revolution while Andy Etchebarren recovers from his latest back...
View ArticleIn an Odd Way, This Former Manager Now More Valuable to Independent Leagues...
The first time I met Chris Carminucci he was managing the Can-Am League’s travel team, the Grays, in 2005. Travel teams are not expected to do well, but his energy and upbeat nature were infectious....
View Article106 Major League Victories This Season; You Bet, and That Is Just for...
Twenty-one years ago when Kash Beauchamp was signed off the St. Paul (MN) Saints’ roster in the Northern League and assigned to Class AA the naysayers were continuing to pooh-pooh the future of this...
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