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Chicago 2, Milwaukee 1 — Box Score The Chicago Dogs (1-0) recorded the first win of the 2020 American Association season with a 2-1 win against the Milwaukee Milkmen (0-1) on Opening Day at Franklin Field. RF Tony Rosselli scored the game’s first run with a leadoff home run in the top of the third...Read More

MOORHEAD, MN – The American Association of Independent Professional Baseball will broadcast every game of the 2020 season on the league’s new streaming destination at www.aabaseball.tv. The new site will go live on Friday, July 3. The American Association has partnered with Vimeo to create www.aabaseball.tv for live league broadcasts and exclusive team video content....Read More

MOORHEAD, MN – The Chicago Dogs, members of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, will be allowed to play home games at Impact Field, their home ballpark in Rosemont, IL, the club announced today. The Dogs were originally slated to play home games at Franklin Field, home of the Milwaukee Milkmen. However, the State...Read More

MOORHEAD, MINN. – Forty-two players were selected in today’s American Association Dispersal Draft, the league office announced. The draft was held for players on teams who will not be able to participate in 2020 due to the effects of COVID-19. The Milwaukee Milkmen made Cleburne Railroaders All-Star INF Chase Simpson the first overall pick in...Read More

MOORHEAD, MINN. – For weeks, sports talk show hosts and baseball fans all believed the perfect time to begin the 2020 baseball season was the Fourth of July Weekend. The holiday, the fireworks, and baseball have always gone together. Fans were looking for a glimmer of hope that the national pastime would return The American...Read More

MOORHEAD, MINN. – The American Association of Independent Professional Baseball will begin a six team, 60-game season with fans in attendance on Friday, July 3, the league office announced today. The full schedule will be announced on Monday, June 15. The American Association will begin the season operating out of three hubs, with games hosted...Read More

By Bob Wirz When baseball finally gets going again both major league teams and their farm systems are not going to have a great deal of time to settle on rosters.  Who is healthy?  Who stayed in the best shape to play right away considering that group workouts were taboo.  Speculation has indicated it might...Read More

Independent Baseball Chatter – by Bob Wirz The coronavirus has placed every baseball player’s season–perhaps their career–on hold, but think about what it does when a pitcher in his early 30s seems to finally be healthy after years of arm issues and could be edging close to the major leagues where he got a taste...Read More

It was the fifth inning of Team Israel’s second game in Bulgaria a few months ago along the unlikely path of qualifying for the Olympic games to be played in Japan when Zach Penprase found himself standing out at shortstop in tears. They were actual tears, this now 35-year-old previously “retired” Fargo-Moorhead infielder recalled from...Read More

By Bob Wirz With baseball shut down indefinitely because of the coronavirus one cannot help but think what is going through the mind of the countless professional players throughout the game, with perhaps a little extra attention to those in major league camps who were on the bubble of a $563,500 payday if they were...Read More