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What’s in a name? Hilarity!

Dusty Napoleon, Beamer Weems, and Gonzalo Gonzalez may never see a major league clubhouse, but they can still get their names in the baseball record books thanks to, well, their names. These aspiring big leaguers are in the running for the 2009 award for best name in the Minor Leagues. The third annual “Minors Moniker [...]

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Preview: Bowling Green Hot Rods

The first pitch of “Minor Leagues, Major Opportunities” will take place in a town known more for its horsepower than its hardball and it will be thrown off of a mound that, as of March 2, didn’t even exist.    Bowling Green, Kentucky – home of the Chevy Corvette – will welcome professional baseball to town [...]

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2009 Lilly Foundation Teacher Creativity Fellowship

If you were a kid growing up in New York City during the 1950’s, and you were a baseball fan, you did not have to look too far for a baseball idol. Between Willie (Mays), Mickey (Mantle) and The Duke (Snider) you had it made. As a baseball fan growing up in rural Southern Indiana [...]

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