Archive for category: MIDWEST

/ August 17, 2011 8:30 pm

Crestwood Panthers; Standing Tall Like Family in Illinois

The Crestwood Panthers are a very strong baseball club in the Northern Illinois Baseball League. In 2011, they not only took the league title, they also made it to the NBC World Series where they lost their 2 games. Both of those games were by only one run, and one of those games was fought all the way to the [...]

/ August 9, 2011 10:11 pm

Q&A With Coach Touchatt of the Salina Blue Jays in Kansas

The Salina Blue Jays of the Walter Johnson League in the state of Kansas is one of the Summer Collegiate teams that qualified for the National Baseball Congress Word Series. They held a strong season and showed a few strong games during the national bracket. I recently had the chance to talk to Head Coach Kyle Touchatt, and I asked [...]

/ July 27, 2011 6:18 pm

St. Joseph Mustangs: 2011 M.I.N.K League Champions

The M.I.N.K League is one of those really interesting Collegiate Summer Leagues that resonate with amazing baseball history. Back in 1910, the league was started as an MLB Affiliated league that stood for Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas League. It was a Class D Minor League that featured 6 teams. It was dropped as an MLB Affiliate in 1913, and since then has survived [...]