A longtime major league player, coach, and manager, Doc Edwards is entering his seventh season as manager for the San Angelo Colts in the independent North American League. We spoke recently for a story I wrote about one of his star players, Landon Camp, which also included some discussion on the expectations he sets for his players and the difficulty an independent player faces when trying to break into an affiliated organization. Going back,...
For the past two years, Landon Camp’s name has put together seasons with the San Angelo Colts that placed him in the running for our Independent Player of the Year award. When I saw this winter that his contract had been sold to the Miami Marlins, I thought it might make for an interesting conversation at some point; when I read the news of his release and subsequent re-signing with the Colts in late...
When the independent North American League started last season, I remember thinking that it seemed a bit ambitious. While the idea of merging leagues isn’t totally nuts*, a massive organization that stretched as far north as Canada, as far south as Texas, and as far west as California (with a special outlier way the hell out in Hawaii) was wild and crazy and just as likely to fail as it was to succeed. *After...
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
