In his second term, he laid the financial groundwork for what would become Durham Bulls Athletic Park, persuading the owner of the minor league team to keep the Bulls in Durham.
Many baseball writers of that time regarded the greatest players of the minor leagues, such as Buzz Arlett, Jigger Statz, Ike Boone, Buddy Ryan, Earl Rapp and Frank Shellenback, as comparable to major league players.
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Davie played 10 games for the New Jersey Cardinals of Short-Season A ball in 2004, hitting .154 with one home run and two RBIs.
He also created the character of Buster Bison as the mascot for the AAA Buffalo Bisons baseball team.
Capitol owns three television stations and nine radio stations in the Raleigh-Durham and Wilmington areas of North Carolina and the Durham Bulls minor league baseball team.
A native of Watsonville, California, Pryer was the daughter of Willard 'Maurice' Pryer, a minor league pitcher who played in the early 1940s for the Fargo-Moorhead Twins of the Northern League.
CSS also broadcasts the WNBA's Atlanta Dream, Major League Lacrosse, Southern League and South Atlantic League Minor League baseball, and previously broadcast the Arena Football League's Georgia Force, Orlando Predators and Tampa Bay Storm, and some CFL contests.
He cleared waivers and was sent to Triple-A Norfolk on August 26, but was called back up to the Mets when rosters expanded.
Before the 1965 baseball season, Woodson was signed by the Minnesota Twins as an amateur free agent to play in their Minor League Baseball organization.
Before the 1967 season, he was sent by St. Louis along with Walt Williams to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Johnny Romano and a minor leaguer, but he never appeared in the majors for Chicago.
He never played in the big leagues, but began a 21-year minor league managerial career in 1941 with the Bosox' Centreville, Maryland club in the Class D Eastern Shore League.
The Florida East Coast League was the name of two American minor league baseball circuits, based on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
The Florida International League was a lower- to mid-level circuit in American and Cuban minor league baseball that existed from 1946 through July 27, 1954.
Francisco Javier Félix Ávila (born July 28, 1983 in Culiacán, Mexico) is a pitcher in Minor League Baseball for the Saraperos de Saltillo.
Between 1897 and 1900, Schebeck played in the Eastern League for the Syracuse Stars (1897) and Montreal Royals (1898–1900).
Glenn Wayne Ezell (born October 29, 1944, at Kentwood, Louisiana) is an American former front-office executive in Major League Baseball, as well as a former MLB coach and minor league catcher and manager.
The record for strikeouts in a game in all of professional baseball belongs to Russ Laribee of the minor league Pawtucket Red Sox, who in 1981 struck out seven times in a thirty-three inning baseball game.
An outfielder and third baseman by trade, the native of Enloe, Texas, logged his playing and managing career exclusively in minor league baseball, but served the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs as a coach on the Major League level, and spent two separate terms scouting for the Dodgers in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
Headland was home to the Headland Dixie Runners, a minor league baseball team in the Alabama State League/Alabama-Florida League from 1950 to 1952.
Heath Edward Totten (born September 30, 1978 in Port Arthur, Texas) is a former right-handed pitcher in Minor League Baseball.
The Interstate League was the name of five different American minor baseball leagues that played intermittently from 1896 through 1952.
The Iowa State League began in 1904 as an eight-team Class D minor league in and around Iowa, United States.
After the 1939 season, Schelle played two more seasons in minor league baseball with the Saginaw Athletics and Flint Gems.
Joseph John Brovia (February 18, 1922, Davenport, California – August 15, 1994, Santa Cruz, California) was a minor league baseball outfielder in the Pacific Coast League with the San Francisco Seals, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, and the Oakland Oaks from 1941 to 1955 (excluding 1942–45, due to World War II).
Major Kerby Farrell (September 3, 1913 – December 17, 1975) was a longtime minor league baseball manager who spent but a single season — 1957 — as a manager in American Major League Baseball.
On February 19, 2000, Matt Nokes, who had just signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians, was forced to land a plane he was piloting on Interstate 15 in northern San Diego County.
Former Boston Red Sox stars Jim Rice, Fred Lynn, and Butch Hobson honed their skills while members of the "BriSox." The ballpark also housed the old Bristol Owls of the Class-B Colonial League in 1949 and 1950, as well as various amateur baseball teams, notably the Bristol En-Dees and the local American Legion team.
Nelson Rafael Paulino (born January 23, 1973 in Salcedo, Hermanas Mirabal, Dominican Republic) is a former Minor league infielder and current hitting coach in the Boston Red Sox minor league system.
The Omaha Dodgers were a minor league baseball affiliate, based in Omaha, Nebraska, of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Class AAA American Association in 1961-62.
Collins began his professional baseball career in 1917 with the Joplin Miners, a minor league baseball team that were members of the Class A Western League.
The Rio Grande Valley Giants was an American minor league baseball franchise in the Double-A Texas League located in Harlingen, Texas, that played from the beginning of the 1960 season through June 10, 1961.
The 2006 season marked his 18th year as a major league or minor league hitting coach, and his fourth with the Boston Red Sox.
White, who is African American, resurfaced in a 2011 interview for UniWatch on Page 2 of ESPN.com about his time with the Yankees Double-A during the mid-1960s, the Columbus Confederate Yankees, since the team had a patch of the Confederate flag on the team's uniforms at the height of the civil rights movement.
The US minor league baseball Albuquerque Isotopes' logo is a Rutherford atom, with the electron orbits forming an A.
Scott Allen Savastano (born June 12, 1986 in Plymouth, Massachusetts) is an American professional baseball player in the Baltimore Orioles minor league organization.
He received the phone call from Tom Runnels, his minor league manager, informing him that he needed to be at Coors Field in time to play in the upcoming series against the Astros, while at the movies watching "Knocked Up".
The Southern Michigan League was a Minor League Baseball circuit which operated between 1906 and 1912.
From 1957 through 1965, the Springfield Giants were the Single-A and Double-A baseball team affiliate of the New York/San Francisco Giants in the Eastern League.
The 2012 season marked Kotchman's 34th consecutive year as a minor league manager.
Dan Logan- Played baseball for the Baltimore Orioles; participated in the longest baseball game recorded for the minor league
The state highway passes Martinsville High School and reduces to two lanes at Fairy Street before reaching Chatham Road adjacent to Hooker Field, home of the Martinsville Mustangs of minor league baseball.
The Wichita Aeros were an American minor league baseball franchise based in Wichita, Kansas, that played in the Triple-A American Association from 1970 through 1984.
After spending almost all of his 6½ years with the Yankees in its minor league system, he was traded along with Billy Martin, Ralph Terry and Bob Martyn to Kansas City for Ryne Duren, Harry Simpson and Jim Pisoni on June 15, 1957 (the MLB trade deadline at the time) in one of the many deals made between the two clubs during the late-1950s.
Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace River Stampeders in the North Peace Baseball League.
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.
In 2008, BirdZerk! was named as the top minor league baseball promotional act by CNBC sports business columnist Darren Rovell.
His sister is WNBA player Porsha Phillips of the San Antonio Silver Stars and his younger brother is minor league baseball player PJ Phillips.
Minor Players, Major Dreams tells the inside story of a minor-league baseball career, and Is This Heaven? The Magic of the Field of Dreams chronicles Mandel's pilgrimage to the set of the movie, Field of Dreams.
Travis Wood - Current Minor League Baseball Player for the Cincinnati Reds
During that time, Community Field housed the affiliates of five different minor league baseball clubs and was fortunate enough to see the likes of Billy Williams (left fielder) and Vida Blue perform before tragedy struck.
David Paul Aschwege (born May 21, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) umpire and an executive for the Lincoln Saltdogs minor league baseball team.
Jon Debus (born 1958), player, coach and manager in Minor League Baseball
Donavan Tate (born 1990), American minor league baseball player
Clinton Earl Wolgamot (December 21, 1892 - April 25, 1970 in Independence, Iowa, USA) was a minor league baseball catcher and manager.
Hicks Field was home to minor league baseball and semipro teams up until 1952, including the Edenton Colonials of the original Coastal Plain League, the Albemarle League, and the Virginia League.
FirstEnergy Park, Lakewood, New Jersey, home of the Lakewood Blue Claws, a Class A minor-league baseball club
The New Hampshire Fisher Cats, a minor-league baseball team in the United States
In 1955, the Cardinals fielded one of the best teams in the history of minor league baseball, ranked the 79th best minor league team of all time by baseball historians Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright.
The Pittsfield franchise was operated by majority owner Marvin Goldklang and the Goldklang Group, which owns and operates four other minor-league baseball teams.
Michael Garciaparra (born 1983), American minor league baseball player
George Shinn (born May 11, 1941) is the former owner of the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets as well the Charlotte Knights and Gastonia Rangers minor league baseball teams along with the Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football.
Augusta GreenJackets, a minor league baseball team based in Augusta, Georgia
He has designed logos for Minor League baseball teams, including the Portland Sea Dogs, Norwich Navigators, and New Britain Rock Cats, and also designed the J. League football team Shimizu S-Pulse's mascot, Palchan.
Jack's younger brother, Matt Cassel, is an American football player with the Minnesota Vikings, and his other younger brother, Justin Cassel, is a minor league baseball player in the farm system of the Chicago White Sox.
Joplin Miners, a defunct minor league baseball team in Joplin, Missouri
He may have been a minor league baseball player (some had even been suggesting that Kosak was a pseudonym for former Major League baseball player Phil Rizzuto) and he may have studied at the University of Iowa's writers' program in the 1960s.
In addition to its music programming, KMRY is the radio home of the Cedar Rapids Kernels of minor league baseball's Midwest League.
In 1978, Schmittou put together a group of investors including country stars Larry Gatlin, Jerry Reed, Conway Twitty, and Richard Sterban (bass singer of the Oak Ridge Boys) in order to purchase a minor league baseball team.
He was particularly interested in the Civil War history of the Jackson Purchase portion of Kentucky, located in the far western part of the state, the Civil War as fought locally, and the Kitty League (Class D Minor League) Baseball.
MacArthur Stadium was noted for having one of the deepest center field fences in minor league baseball, 434 feet, and no ball cleared that fence until 1971, with Richie Zisk being the first player to accomplish that feat.
In 1998, Wright and fellow baseball historian Bill Weiss were chosen by minor league baseball to choose the The National Baseball Association's top 100 minor league teams.
The Visalia Rawhide, a minor league baseball team in California, plays one game each season as the Mudville Nine, with
Toledo was given another shot at minor league baseball, resuscitating the Toledo Mud Hens moniker, and field a team for the 1965 International League season at the new Lucas County Stadium.
Named after former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, it was originally created to raise money for minor league baseball in Canada.
Its athletics department is fairly notable in that it has produced two Major League Baseball pitchers, Mario Ramos and Nate Minchey, along with many other minor league baseball players.
Marty Purtell (born 1891), long-time minor league baseball player and manager
The city hosts LoanMart Field, (formerly known as The Epicenter), a minor-league baseball stadium, home of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes.
His company, Jujamcyn Theaters, owns 5 Broadway theaters, and at one time or another Mr. Landesman has owned 3 minor league baseball teams, various racehorses and a collection of Roger Miller long playing records.
Round Rock Express, a minor league baseball franchise based in Round Rock, Texas
A pitcher, Niebla played in minor league baseball from 1998 to 2000 with teams in the Montreal Expos and Los Angeles Dodgers organizations.
After his freshman year at University of Connecticut, Burrell was drafted by another baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays, and Burrell decided to spend his summers playing minor league baseball while concentrating on basketball for the rest of the year.
Southern Association, a United States minor league baseball league, was known as the "Southern League" from 1901–1919
Rick Down- Former Minor League Baseball player and former MLB hitting coach
In 2001, during the celebration of the centennial of the National Baseball Association, Minor League Baseball commissioned baseball historians Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright to develop a list of the 100 best minor-league baseball teams of all time.
This stadium on South E Street replaced Fiscalini Field in Perris Hill Park as the home of the minor league baseball team.
The plot describes Bella Swan's move from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player.
It was the longtime home of Bend minor league baseball teams playing in the Northwest League (most recently the Bend Bandits) and the Western Baseball League.
When basketball great Michael Jordan surprised the sports world in 1994 by signing a minor league baseball contract with the White Sox, Hriniak was brought in to help him with his batting technique.
Capitol, already in the process of moving their minor league baseball team, the Durham Bulls, into the new Durham Bulls Athletic Park being built by the city, announced plans to move WDNC into the ballpark upon its completion in 1995.
Bill Allington (1903–1966), American Minor league baseball player and manager
During his minor league baseball career, Lasso played in the Cincinnati Reds organization.