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unusual facts about Atlantic League


Atlantic League

Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an independent professional baseball league founded in 1998


Butch Hobson

On November 19, 2007, Hobson was named the first-ever manager of the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in the Atlantic League.

Delano-Hitch Stadium

After sitting empty in 1997, the stadium got a new team for 1998: the Atlantic League's Newburgh Black Diamonds.

Harford Sports Complex

The baseball complex was home to the Atlantic League Aberdeen Arsenal baseball team in 2000, before the Aberdeen IronBirds moved to the completed Ripken Stadium in 2002.

Ryan Speier

He played at Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of Atlantic League in 2010.

Tony Ferrara

In 1999 former Yankee Rick Cerone asked Ferrara to become First base coach for the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, a position he held for three seasons.

Will Pennyfeather

as the Taipei Gida of the Taiwan Major League, the Broncos de Reynosa of the Mexican League, and teams in the independent Northern League and Atlantic League.

Williams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

The Lehigh Valley Black Diamonds were a proposed Atlantic League Independent baseball team who were originally slated to play at the Lehigh Valley Multi-Purpose Sport Complex, a 6,400-seat, $15 million-dollar ballpark in Williams Township.


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Independent baseball league

The Atlantic League has had more marquee players than any other independent league, including José Canseco, Rickey Henderson, Ozzie Canseco, Rubén Sierra, Carlos Baerga, and John Rocker.

Middle Atlantic League

The Middle Atlantic League played from 1925 through 1951, with the exception of three seasons (1943-45) when the loop suspended operations during World War II.

Netanya Tigers

The first pitcher drafted by the Tigers was right-handed 6'5" pitcher Leon Feingold, who pitched for the State University of New York at Albany 1990-1994, the Cleveland Indians system from 1994-1995, the independent Atlantic League in 1999, and also played for the Pleasantville Red Sox.