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How long can a bat dog wait out a sausage race?

Willie Mae Mays races onto the field to claim the day in Greensboro
@JoshJacksonMiLB
April 30, 2023

Like her namesake, Willie Mae Mays can cover a lot of ground. High-A Greensboro's bat dog is a good girl and generally reliable member of the gameday staff. In the middle of the third inning of Saturday's nightcap against visiting Rome, though, she'd had all she could stand and she

Here's the best of Red Sox Minor League ballparks 

From the South through New England, Boston farm is fun-filled
@JoshJacksonMiLB
April 24, 2023

The Minor League Ballpark Guides series presented by Wyndham brings all the most fun features of Minors ballparks across America (and one in Canada!) onto your desktop, tablet or mobile device, whether you're interested in taking a virtual tour from where you sit or planning a trip to catch some

Here's the best of the Braves' Minor League ballparks 

Travel across the South in a journey through the Atlanta system
@JoshJacksonMiLB
April 17, 2023

The Minor League Ballpark Guides series presented by Wyndham brings all the most fun features of Minors ballparks across America (and one in Canada!) onto your desktop, tablet or mobile device, whether you're interested in taking a virtual tour from where you sit or planning a trip to catch some

The year after Jackie, Ritchey integrated PCL

This season marks 75th anniversary of San Diegan's breakthrough
@JoshJacksonMiLB
April 17, 2023

This story originally ran on MiLB.com on Feb. 21, 2018. We are highlighting it again now in honor of the 75th anniversary of John Ritchey breaking the PCL color barrier.

Plan your summer with these Minors road trips

Get started with tours of six baseball-rich regions across the USA
@JoshJacksonMiLB
April 7, 2023

The launch of the complete package of Minor League Ballpark Guides, presented by Wyndham, offers an opportunity to visit 119 of the greatest places on the planet without leaving your desk. But at a certain point, you're going to want to stretch your legs. These guides are liable to provoke

Ghosts of the Minors gets salty with fishy club

IL's Charleston Marlins were deep-sea dwellers in Appalachia
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 29, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

The best of the Nationals' Minor League ballparks

From Single-A FredNats to Triple-A Red Wings, affiliates full of fun
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 27, 2023

The Minor League Ballpark Guides series brings all the most fun features of Minors ballparks across America (and one in Canada!) onto your desktop, tablet or mobile device, whether you're interested in taking a virtual tour from where you sit or planning a trip to catch some games. Here, we

Ghosts of the Minors smell like roses with this club

As in Olde England, baseball had archrivals in Lancaster and York
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 22, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

The best of the Rockies' Minor League ballparks

From West Coast to New England, Colorado's system full of fun
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 20, 2023

The Minor League Ballpark Guides series brings all the most fun features of Minors ballparks across America (and one in Canada!) onto your desktop, tablet or mobile device, whether you're interested in taking a virtual tour from where you sit or planning a trip to catch some games. Here, we

Ghosts of the Minors finds a mark in this gullible club

Aw, shucks! Riverside Rubes were babes of the Sunset League
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 15, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

Ghosts of the Minors dives right in with this Wisconsin team

Take a dip into the colorful history of the Green Bay Bays of yore
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 8, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

Here's the best of the Orioles' Minor League ballparks

Baltimore affiliates stocked with surf, sun, seafood and more
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 6, 2023

The Minor League Ballpark Guides series brings all the most fun features of Minors ballparks across America (and one in Canada!) onto your desktop, tablet or mobile device, whether you're interested in taking a virtual tour from where you sit or planning a trip to catch some games. Here, we

Ghosts of the Minors goes Dutch in old New York

Amsterdam Rugmakers covered the bases in Canadian-Am League
@JoshJacksonMiLB
March 1, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

Here's the best of the D-backs' Minor League ballparks 

From Visalia to Reno, D-backs prospects put on a show
@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 27, 2023

The Minor League Ballpark Guides series brings all the most fun features of Minors ballparks across America (and one in Canada!) onto your desktop, tablet or mobile device, whether you're interested in taking a virtual tour from where you sit or planning a trip to catch some games. Here, we

This team rocks out on Ghosts of the Minors

Graniteers put on a solid show in the Minors of yesteryear
@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 22, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

Here's the best of the Cubs' Minor League ballparks 

From Single-A Myrtle Beach to Triple-A Iowa, these are must-'C' spots
@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 20, 2023

The Minor League Ballpark Guides series brings all the most fun features of Minors ballparks across America (and one in Canada!) onto your desktop, tablet or mobile device, whether you're interested in taking a virtual tour from where you sit or planning a trip to catch some games. Here, we

Sea Dogs staff reaps surprise reward from team sale

Former owners cut checks as parting gift to 18 club employees
@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 17, 2023

February mornings in Maine can be bleak. On this particular one, Feb. 7, a Tuesday following a weekend when the wind chill hit -45 degrees, the atmosphere in the offices of Portland's Hadlock Field abruptly took a sunny and warm turn. The 18 full-time staff members of the Sea Dogs

Put on the ritz with this Ghosts of the Minors team

If you've met Calumet, you can swing it with the Aristocrats of yore
@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 15, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

Blue Rocks celebrate Hall-of-Famer Johnson

Wilmington full of pride for homegrown Negro Leagues legend
@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 13, 2023

You can look at the written record. You can read the accounts of those who saw him play. Judy Johnson stands as one of baseball's greatest. Although he's in the Hall of Fame and is by no means unknown to the sport's history buffs, Johnson remains undercelebrated. For most fans,

Have a cow with this club on Ghosts of the Minors

How the Beatrice Milkskimmers went out to pasture in the 1910s
@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 8, 2023

Welcome to the silent edition of Ghosts of the Minors, adapted from the segment from The Show Before the Show Podcast that asks you to identify a historical Minor League team hidden among two phonies. Here, we skip the quiz element and speed headlong into the past for a quick

Baseball Winter Meetings preview 2022

Minor League awards, Draft lottery among highlights in San Diego
@JoshJacksonMiLB
December 4, 2022

The Baseball Winter Meetings return to San Diego this week, and the Minor League portion as usual is packed with panel discussions, open forums and other gatherings, highlighted Sunday by the Opening Night reception and awards program at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.

Single-A award winners and All-Stars

Quero, Chourio, De Los Santos garner MVP accolades
@JoshJacksonMiLB
November 10, 2022

Minor League Baseball has revealed the end-of-season award winners and All-Star teams for the three Single-A circuits, based on votes cast by league managers. Highlighting the winners for the California League were the Angels' Edgar Quero, who took home MVP honors, Pitcher of the Year Joseph Hernandez of the Mariners

'Stars in the making': Twins maintain family legacy 

Chris and Stefan Caray form a dynamic broadcast duo in Amarillo
@JoshJacksonMiLB
September 22, 2022

It might seem like Chris and Stefan Caray knew their career paths from the time they spoke their first words. Their father is a baseball broadcaster. Their uncle is a baseball broadcaster. Their grandfather was a baseball broadcaster. And their great-grandfather, as far as Cubs and some Cardinals fans are

Flying Squirrels keep Richmond 34 Legacy alive

This weekend's events are flagship of far-reaching initiative
@JoshJacksonMiLB
September 16, 2022

On a Saturday morning in February, 62 years ago, a group of Black college students walked into Thalhimers department store in downtown Richmond, Virginia, sat down at the counter of its Richmond Room restaurant and -- just as they had every reason to expect -- were refused service and arrested.

Iowa was hot bed for early Minor League action

Meet the Microbes, stand with the Standpatters in circuits of yore
@JoshJacksonMiLB
August 8, 2022

Rocket City Trash Pandas. Albuquerque Isotopes. Montgomery Biscuits. Even the Quad Cities River Bandits and the Cedar Rapids Kernels. It’s easy to assume that attention-grabbing Minor League team names that max out on fun are a modern phenomenon, perhaps even a passing phase.