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congrats to the lake erie crushers 2009 frontier league champions!

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congrats to the lake erie crushers, comeback champions in minor league baseball’s frontier league.

 

and in their inaugural season no less, how ‘bout that?!  :clap:

 

 

9/25/09

 

O’Fallon, MO—The Lake Erie Crushers capped off a remarkable inaugural season by winning the 2009 Frontier League Championship by virtue of a 13-10 win over River City in game five of the championship series at T.R. Hughes Ballpark. The Crushers took the best of five series three games to two.

 

The Crushers used a seven –run fifth inning to erase a two-run deficit and power themselves to the championship as Tyler Johnson hit a three-run double and Todd Balduf added a two-run single to highlight the hit parade.

 

“Doing this in year one, building a championship from scratch, that’s what made this so special,” a champagne-drenched Manager John Massarelli said afterwards. “This is just an amazing feeling to share this with this great group of guys.”

 

more:

http://www.lakeeriecrushers.com/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=28836

 

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here are some scenes from a game we went to this summer:

avon crushers vs evansville otters -- aug 22nd, 2009

 

 

the new ballpark in avon, all-pro freight stadium, is very nice AllPro_Stadium_Color.gif

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a big crowd ignores the weird freezing cold, rainy, miserable weather

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I found this too large 12/12/08 construction photo from the ironworkers local 19 website:

http://www.ironworkers17.org/UserFiles/Image/Avon%20Ballpark.jpg

 

more stadium construction pics here:

http://www.ironworkers17.org/sub/avon_crushers

 

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yep, it’s an official minor league baseball park -- they got dippin dots!  :laugh:

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left field has ‘weed pro hill,’ the kids were sliding and rolling down it

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lots of chatting with the fans and signing autographs

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the windup…

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…and the pitch!

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more warming up

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the free promotion -- my mom collects this stuff, so that’s why we went despite bad weather

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there is a big cap down the 1st base line, it faces the highway

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7th inning stretch hs band

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upper deck, you can rent the tables, & they have table service, that seemed to be popular

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plenty of tee shirts and other gift shop merch

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*** that's it from ne ohio minor league baseball -- again congrats to the crushers! ***

 

 

no cute crushers!  ::)

 

What the hell is up with the guy with the fire engine kool aid colored hair?

 

Send that queen back to whatever country he came from!

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