Topic: Minor League Things

May 9, 2013

In The Land of the Sand Gnats

Holly Wendt

Savannah, Georgia is a long way from Cheyenne, Wyoming, and also a long way from the Major Leagues. But Savannah is where Brandon Nimmo, one of the very few baseball players to make it out of Wyoming and a prospect in the New York Mets organization, plays in the outfield for the Savannah Sand Gnats. It's all a lot closer than it seems.

August 15, 2012

Bohemians Rhapsodizing: Last Night In Baltimore

Joe Tirabassi

The Baltimore Bohemians have completed their exhausting, invigorating, harrowing and awesome inaugural season, which means that Bohs co-chief Joe Tirabassi's season-long diary of the team is coming to an end as well. With a keg party, in the rain.

July 17, 2012

Vive Le Rouge

Andrew Lewellen

In its first year of operation, the Detroit City Football Club already looks like a legitimate minor league success story—a minor league squad with multiple groups of supporters and a solid on-field product deserving of all that passion. But this upstart team's backstory is more complicated than that, and has its origins in Detroit's signature stubbornness and uniquely polyglot population.

July 9, 2012

Every Night Is Hipster Night

David Matthews

Williamsburg Night at the Brooklyn Cyclones was promoted as "Hipster Night," online and elsewhere. Instead it was, quite understandably and quite enjoyably, just another minor league baseball game in Brooklyn. What else could it have been?

June 19, 2012

Bohemians Rhapsodizing: Searching For Wins in a Gold and Red World

Joe Tirabassi

In the latest installment in our running diary of the Baltimore Bohemians' first season as a minor league soccer team, the Bohs struggle to find their way into the win column, but find their way thanks in part to a throwback-y embrace of some traditional Maryland flavor. Contains dangerously funky theme song for the late, lamented NASL team the Baltimore Bays.

May 17, 2012

The League of Magical Thinking

Tom Keiser

As it has during every offseason of its three years in existence, the United Football League appears to be teetering on the edge of collapse. It may survive, or it may not. But this uniquely ambitious minor league always had a high ratio of fantasy to reality.

April 24, 2012

Bash Be Not Proud: A Valedictory Poem for Jose Canseco

Chris Collision

As Jose Canseco leaves Twitter—so he can focus on his revived baseball career, or cultivating his grandiosity, or whatever other reason he does things—a bit of Shelley-an valedictory poetry seems in order.