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Fleeing Fish
Where will the Florida Marlins go? If they leave South Florida, they will go to a minor league market. While the major league media spouts off about Vegas and Portland, MLN takes you on a real-deal tour of the towns that could make the list...[Article] |
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A Baseball Thanksgiving
The Tornadoes deliver something for which Worcester fans can be truly thankful... Championship baseball is back. [Article]
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2005 Ralphie Awards
They're the Masters of Minor League Media. Five who represent the best media relations people and broadcasters chosen from more than 600 minor league teams and 100 major league clubs. Who won the coveted annual "Ralphie"? [Article]
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My Ngst About Moneyball
Baseball or Moneyball? As the World Series curtain rings down, and the Winter Meetings approach, is baseball a sport or an industry? [Opinion]
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Thomecoming
Ryan Howard is big league talent. Jim Thome has a multi-million dollar contract through 2008, with an option for 2009. What will the Phillies do? [Article]
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Punked by Baseball America: An MLN Anniversary Tribute
As we celebrate our 5th anniversary, Baseball America punks our prowess at list making. Sr. Editor Brian Ross has a few choice words for them about the FAB50 and the future of sports publishing.
[Opinion]
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Future Legends of the Fall
After the World Series' final game, the Arizona Fall League showcases some of the best up-and-coming talent. [Article]
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We are the Champions
The minors and indies wrap up their seasons with style. League by league recaps of the championships. [Article]
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Sports' Other Season
While major league clubs seldom are impacted by natural disasters, hurricane season can end a minor league season, or shutter a team for good. Who has been impacted by the double-whammy of Katrina and Rita? From Corpus Christi to Pensacola we check in with our favorite Gulf teams in baseball, hockey, and football.
[Article]
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2005 Farm Directory & Rankings
Who has the best farm system in baseball? Who's the worst? Whose clubs help them create super regions? The 2005 farm directory goes beyond the players of the moment to look at both the depth charts and the system developing the players. [Article]
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Through the Eye
Wedging open the needle through which precious few farmhands pass to the toughtest roster in the majors, the Atlanta Braves, is no easy feat.
[Article]
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Pacific Coast League 2005 All-PCL Team
The Pacific Coast League has revealed its
end-of-season 2005 All-PCL Team, with a star-studded lineup includes
many major leaguers in-the-making. Did your favorite player make
the squad?
[Article]
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Eastern League EOS All-Stars 2005
The Eastern League has named its end-of season all-stars for 2005.
Some are familiar to MLN readers as FAB50 picks. Others are Baseball
America darlings. Check out the all-EL team list!
[Article]
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The Indy Oasis Tour
Indianapolis is SportsTown USA, the Mecca of
Fun and entertainment for a large chunk of the Midwest. Savvy
sports travelers can find great times and great bargains on rooms
and fun for a day, a weekend, or a complete vacation.
[Article]
[Buy
Indians Tickets]
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MLN FAB50 2005 Farm Honors Red Sox
As part of the FAB50 Baseball 2005, we select a club that has turned out the best crop of movers and shakers in the minors. This year's winner? The Boston Red Sox. [Article]
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FAB50 Baseball 2005
Who are the best of the
best in minor league baseball mid-season? The FAB50 Baseball 2005
is the ranking of the fifty best and fastest-moving players in
minor and independent baseball, along with bios and big photos
of each player!
Who is the best player in minor league baseball?
Hints:
Position: P
Team: Tacoma
[Article]
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Extreme Makeover
Vic Darensbourg has gone from struggling pitcher
to hot commodity. All with the twist of a wrist. [Article]
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Baseball, Heal Thyself.
The 20th century needed a tyrant to bring discipline
to the sport of baseball. The 21st century will need a visionary
to return it to its place as the national pastime. Can Branch
Rickey III, scion of the famed Rickey family, heal baseball's
self-inflicted wounds? [Opinion]
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Columbus Jones and
the
Triple-A Dinger Derby
Columbus Clippers infielder Mitch Jones
is a man on fire at the 2005 AAA Home Run Derby [Article]
Sacramento Star Shine
The fans, fabulous and whacky; The events.
All of the sideshow that surrounded the great Triple-A All-Star
game in Sacramento at the 2005 edition. [Article]
The PCL Strikes Back
After years of International League victories,
the Pacific Coast League rides a history-making grand-slam to
its first Triple-A All-Star win in three years. [Article]
Team Photos
Photos of the International and Pacific
Coast (PCL) League teams, and shots of many of the top players
from both teams. [Article]
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In The Gods' Hands
If the Greeks
were right, and a hero is defined as a mortal who has endured and
thrived in the face of everything that the gods throw at him, then
Anthony Sanders' epic life story makes him a one of the greats.
Will the baseball gods smile on his last run at a major league career?
[Article]
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A No Fireworks
Fourth
Schilling Shelled in the
Stix? The ankle is fine, but a transfer of power to make the signature
Schilling fastball smoke consistently is not there yet. The Boston
Red Sox, currently PawSox, pitcher is patient in the face of his
toughest critic: Curt Schilling. [Article]
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Father Fish 'Fesses
Manager McKeon's
Tall Tales Told
In his
latest book "I'm Just Getting Started," Marlins Skipper
Jack McKeon tells his tall tales of days in the majors and minors
with a wink and a cigar, and tells you why, as the oldest skipper
in major league baseball, he's just getting started. [Book
Review]
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Stone-Faced KILLER
Scott Baker takes on the attitude of a gunfighter
when he takes the mound. Only one man walks away alive to the
major leagues, and Baker's going to make sure that it's him. [Article]
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Save for a Rainy Day
C.J. Nitkowski picks up a save that's one
for the record books. [Article]
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Bronx Blast
Yankees Pitching Prospect Sean Henn was brought up from Class AA Trenton to start for the New York Yankees. How getting blasted on your first trip to the Bigs may not be bad for your career after all. [Article]
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2005 Major League Baseball Draft
While some magazines give you the cook's tour
of the top few rounds of the draft, MLN breaks down the stats
on all fifty rounds of the next wave of minor leaguers!
We serve it up any way that you like: By round
and overall pick, by club, by college, high school, and even state
and city!
[Article]
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The Fresh Fish & Salsa Tour
Catch the fresh Fish at the Marlin's AAA club,
the Albuquerque Isotopes, then take some time
to stop and smell the green chiles roasting in Albuquerque, Santa
Fe, and Taos, New Mexico on a 7 to 8 day trip with something for
everyone.
[Article]
[Buy Isotopes
Tickets]
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AAA and Texas League All-Stars are the Hot
Tickets for May as MLNTicket™ Debuts
Only
the leader in Minor League Sports could bring you the first comprehensive
ticketing system that connects you up to both the best offerings
of the stadium and season tickets for resale in one place. Why cruise
page after page on the web when we offer you everything in minor
and independent baseball with just a few clicks. Check out MLNTicket!
[Section]
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Open Source Baseball Directory Debut
MLN introduces the first Open Source
directory of players in all sports. Teams have a bit. Minor League
Baseball tracks them... in minor league baseball. MLN follows them
major to minor, independent to affiliated. What's "Open Source?"
You can contribute your stories, magic moments, and more. Check
out the first players to roll out! [Section]
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Juan Diaz'
Cuban Odessey
Juan Diaz embarked on a baseball career
with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1996. Nine years, one fake wife,
an invalid contract and a curveball from 9/11 have left this Cuban
slugger a man without a country, or a team. [Article]
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Hobson's Choice
Nashua Pride skipper and former Boston Red
Sox great Butch Hobson loves coaching, independent baseball, and
his adopted town of Nashua, New Hampshire enough that only one
man was right to replace the retiring manager. [Article]
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MLN
Top Ten Minor League Ballpark Guide 2005
MLN and Baseballparks.com take you
on a tour of the best places inthe minor leagues to watch a ballgame.
[Article]
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Pacific Coast League
Hall of Fame 2005
MLN presents the class of 2005 in
our special Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame section, including
players and the executives who shaped the Pacific Coast League
then and now. [Article]
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Are the Players in Charge of the Circus?
Major League Baseball has developed a
programs for substance abuse and performance enhancers that is
fair, tough and comprehensive. So how can the Players Association
get away with turning the major league policy into a joke? [Article]
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Band
of Brothers
When the National League and the American
League entered into a turf war in 1901, the smaller leagues banded
together into an association that would become Minor League Baseball [Article]
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Twin Disasters
Off season injuries sideline two of the Minnesota
Twins' biggest bats on the farm. One is gone for the year. The
other's fate hangs in the balance. [Article]
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The Tokyo Bypass
Minor leaguers waiting for a shot at the show
often choose Tokyo, where the pay is better and adventure awaits.
[Article]
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He's
a Lumberjack and He's Okay
Formerly of the Twins' Rochester
Red Wings in the AAA International League, Jeromy Palki swings the lumber through summer, then cuts it down in the off-season.
The son of a son of a lumberjack still dreams of the Show, and
will do what it takes to get there. [Article]
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A New Day in the Old West
A new independent league, the Golden League,
homesteads in the desert Southwest and Mexico. Will it flourish,
or find itself in the crosshairs of the barons of affiliated baseball
who control the turf? [Article]
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Message
For Every Clubhouse Wall
The game of baseball is a timeline more than a
century old. Barry, Sammy, and Jose have set their part of it
in sad stone. How will the young players reporting to minor league
camp shape it? [Opinion]
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For
Everyone Else, There's VISA
Another
wrinkle of the post-9/11 world is the restriction of work visas.
The shortage has affected minor league players from Canada to
the Caribbean to Korea. [Article]
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Minor League Sports - A Primer
Live in a town with minor sports, but you're not
sure what it's all about? Live in New York City and think this
is all beneath you? Hockey is the No. 2 sport in America?
No way.
Check out our primer on the minors. Lots of information
and facts that may surprise you. [Article]
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