Bryant Flete at-bat for the Southern Illinois Miners.
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Frontier League Cubbies

For those who don’t know the Frontier League is an unaffiliated league operating out of the midwest. Teams in the FL come from Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Indiana. Of the ten teams in the league five are based in Illinois cities, which is, you know, a lot. It’s also a league with plenty […]

Greg Tagert, manager of the Gary SouthShore RailCats, holding a tryout.
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Managing to Win

My girlfriend and I have season tickets to the Milwaukee Milkmen. For those unaware, the Milkmen play in the American Association and thus are an unaffiliated team. The two games we went to last week both featured the Gary SouthShore RailCats as their opponent. Both games were fun and featured plenty of baseball action. One […]

Daniel Descalso makes a leaping attempt at a ball.
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An Offseason to Forget

When the 2019 Major League Baseball offseason began I think the majority of Chicago Cubs fans were optimistic about how things would go. The past few years had seen the team spend big in areas where they needed to improve while at the same time the front office dangled the carrot of a major signing […]