West Division Team W L PCT GB Gateway 28 16 .636 – Schaumburg 27 18 .600 1.5 Evansville 26 19 .578 2.5 Florence 21 25 .457 8.0 Joliet 21 25 .457 8.0 Windy City 20 25 .444 8.5 Washington 19 26 .422 9.5 Lake Erie 19 27 .413 10.0 East
East Division Team W L PCT GB Milwaukee 27 18 .600 – Cleburne 26 22 .542 2.5 Chicago 24 23 .511 4.0 Kane County 23 24 .489 5.0 Gary SouthShore 20 28 .417 8.5 Lake Country 19 27 .413 8.5 West Division Team W L PCT GB Kansas City 30
Aurora Area Retired Teachers Association (AARTA) will be host to Strike Out Hunger, bus trips to Chicago Cubs and White Sox Major League Baseball (MLB) games to benefit Aurora food pantries. Dick Schindel, AARTA president, said the public is invited. Tailgate parties are included. Attendees are asked to bring a
Kane County Cougars players salute an honor guard opening the Cougars’ baseball season Thursday , May 11 at Northwestern Medicine Field in Geneva.
By Woodrow Carroll Three games into the Frontier League season, the Joliet Slammers held a 1-2 won-loss record through Sunday. The Slammers, an independent professional minor league team, had given up only five run, but, scored only four runs! Up against the Sussex County (the most northern of all New
By Woodrow Carroll If the Houston Astros come away as World Series champions in 2023, it will end a drought going back to 2000. Not since the New York Yankees made it three straight in World Series championships, 1998-2000, has a team repeated as World Series champions. The Yankees just
February 15, 2023Dear editor; Even as the world may be going to hell in a hand basket, as Grandma used to say, and at the risk of sounding frivolous, millions of Americans will share at least a temporary respite March 30 when Major League Baseball’s Opening Day takes place across
By Woodrow Carroll The Joliet Slammers defeated the visiting Florence Y’Alls, 4-3, in a Frontier League minor league baseball game Sunday, Aug. 7 in a game delayed two hours by bad weather. In many instances the game would have been postponed to the following day and made up as part
By Woodrow Carroll The defending World Series champion Atlanta Braves have an opportunity to test themselves this week. Three games the early part of the week with the New York Mets will be followed by four games with the Washington Nationals. Results should reveal Braves’ pennant position. Brian Snitker, 66,
By Bobby Narang Owen Murphy’s place in Riverside-Brookfield High School baseball program history is set. The senior pitcher and infielder is one of the best players in program history. The University of Notre Dame recruit capped a stellar career by lifting the Bulldogs to the program’s first Class 4A regional
By Woodrow Carroll Just when things were starting to get dark for the Chicago White Sox, a ray of sunshine appeared last weekend. Having dropped three straight games in Toronto and the opener of a three-game series with the host Tampa Bay Rays, the future was starting to look bleak
Kane County Cougars’ catcher Josh Rolette, 4, celebrates his three-run home run Sunday, May 15, with first baseman Dylan Busby, 25, and Nick Anderson, 2, right fielder.
By Woodrow Carroll Although it was certainly a small sample, fans of the Chicago White Sox had to be pleased with the way things unfolded last weekend. Playing in Detroit to open the 2022 Major League Baseball season, the Chicago White Sox captured two victories in three games with the
Kane County Cougars’ pitcher Andy McGuire throws Labor Day to a Chicago Dogs’ batter in the final game this season.
By Woodrow Carroll Entering last weekend’s series with the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago White Sox likely had a few mild concerns; not panic. It was just a mild concern given that the Sox had lost five of seven games with AL Central Division rival Kansas City in the prior two
The national grassroots Change the Mascot campaign, led by the Oneida Indian Nation, praised the July 23 decision to change the Cleveland Indians’ Major League Baseball (MLB) name to the Guardians. Cleveland has been known as the Indians since 1915, but announced the name change with a video on Twitter
Former Northern Illinois University pitcher Ryan Anderson (Palatine) signed a professional contract with the Joliet Slammers of the Frontier League, the team announced Monday. Anderson’s won-loss record with Northern Illinois this season was 3-3 in 12 appearances and started eight games He struck out 31 batters in 49.2 innings pitched.
Recent Northern Illinois University graduate Nate Thomas (Mishawaka, Ind./South Bend St. Joseph) signed a professional contract with the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League baseball team. Thomas finished his Northern Illinois career fifth in program history in strikeouts per nine innings at 8.80. He is ninth all-time in career strikeouts
Kane County Cougars’ third baseman Luis Roman puts the ball in play in the Cougars’ 11-2 victory over visiting Houston Apollos Wednesday, July 7, at Northwestern Medicine Field in Geneva. in an independent American Association Baseball League game.
By Woodrow Carroll Minor league baseball operations always have been a bit tricky. With the headaches related to COVID-19 situations clearly became worse. Many communities across the Nation, and on both sides of the border, have rolled out the red carpet for minor league franchises only to see things go
