While Early, Attendance Is Strong With Numerous Crowds of 7,000
May 25, 2012 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
Joke all you want about how everything seems bigger in Texas, but there is a certain truth in the early weeks of the Independent Baseball season with El Paso luring the biggest single game crowd (7,823) and Sugar Land reaching the 7,000 plateau in each of its first six home games. Lone Star State teams […]
Another Indy Milestone Achieved With 150th Major Leaguer
April 7, 2011 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
    Independent Baseball reached another impressive milestone shortly after the major league season opened.           Appearances by rookies Tom Wilhelmsen and Aaron Crow plus a re-appearance by Eric Almonte, who is at the game’s highest level for the first time in eight years, jumped the non-affiliated branch of baseball past the 150 mark in getting […]
First Year at the New Ballpark
October 10, 2010 by Justin Murphy · Leave a Comment
In 2010, the Minnesota Twins were the only team in the Major Leagues to play in a new stadium. In front of 3.2 million fans at Target Field, the Twins went 53-28, the third-best home record in the major leagues and a 4.5-game improvement over 2009, the last season at the Metrodome. This raises the […]
