With Atlanta’s Chipper Jones making an early run at Major League Baseball’s first .400 batting average in 67 years, I thought it might be fun to look at similar seasons at the minor league level. The data at Baseball-Reference’s minor league site goes back as far as 1992, a seventeen year span in which there have been ten .400 seasons. Sort of. The thing with these stats is that the minimum number of plate appearances necessary...
Carolina League
Spotlight on A Ball – 3/31/2008
With 300+ minor league teams in these United States, OMDQ and I will need some way to focus our energies, and this is one way we figured to do it. Monday is “A” ball day. That will include Rookie League and every form of A ball. Wednesday we’ll check out the AA clubs, and then on Friday on up to AAA. We’ll also develop a few weekly features to slot in on the other...
Reliving the Summer of Baseball
Last summer I took my son to nearly every minor league ballpark in our home state of Virginia. I called it “The Summer of Baseball”, and published some of my photos on this blog. I ended up writing an article about it for Camperways magazine, which runs destination features for fans of RV travel. At the time we had seven teams active in the area. Since then, the Atlanta Braves have announced that they will...
We Now Have a Role Model
OMDQ and I often joke about how we’re going to become famous for our travels in search of minor-league baseball. Apparently, it’s already been done, but it only made one man Lancaster-famous. LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. – A love of America’s Pastime, a chance to see the country and some downtime after his manufacturing company stopped production were the key factors in guiding Chuck Barrage’s minor-league baseball journey this season. Barrage, of Honey Brook, has...
Ballpark Photos: Potomac @ Salem 7/29/2007
Taken in Salem, VA at the home of the Salem Avalanche (Houston affiliate). L to R: Salem lefty Brian Bogusevic, Outside Salem Memorial, The outfield view. Fantastic food: the huge pork BBQ sandwich with cole slaw. Follow it up with the sno-cone if possible – my son had two.
Bus Leagues Photos
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
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