Northern Leagueâ€™s New Eight-Team Lineup Taking Shape With Lake County Hoping to Build and Be Home in Five Weeks

May 6, 2010 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment

Training camps started opening for the expanded Northern League this week as the eight-team circuit zeroes in on the start of its 18th modern day campaign May 20, but the happiest news might well have been one more step toward getting a shovel in the ground on the new stadium for the fledgling Lake County […]

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A Question of Ownership

February 26, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 1 Comment

From 1933-1988 there was one constant in the Boston Red Sox organizationâ€”the Yawkey family.Â For 55 years, the team was owned by either Tom or his wife Jean, and three generations of my family lived, breathed, cried, and bled Boston Red Sox baseball under Yawkeyâ€™s watch.Â But prior to Yawkeyâ€™s purchase of the team, seven […]

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