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3 unusual facts about Atlantic League of Professional Baseball


Atlantic League

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

Delano-Hitch Stadium

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

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.


Ben Fritz

Benjamin James Fritz (born March 29, 1981 in San Jose, California) is a minor league baseball player who was a first-round selection in the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft who last played in 2010 for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Butch Hobson

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

Clint Everts

Clinton Charles Everts (born August 10, 1984) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Clipper Magazine

In 2004, Clipper Magazine purchased the naming rights of Clipper Magazine Stadium, home of the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, for $2.5 million over ten years.

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.

Prentice Redman

In 2011 he played independent baseball with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association and the Olmecas de Tabasco of the Mexican Baseball League.

Roy Corcoran

Roy Elliot Corcoran (born May 11, 1980) is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

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.


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