Can Am League expansion

[davidtalbot]

I was reading online (can't remember if it was ballparks.com or not) they said the Ottawa Lynx are going to be leaving town either the end of this year or next year. The league has already looked into putting a team in to Ottawa as well as Montreal.

I live south of Boston and their has been talk of a team in Plymouth MA. The Plymouth River Eels (sp?) are supposed to be in a new stadium by somewhere between 2007 and 2009 depending on construction. No league was mentioned for the team but it would have to be either the Can-Am or Atlantic League, Atlantic League season is too long for this area so Can-Am seems more likely.

Wonder if Bangor, Albany, Pittsfield have any chance of returning? Just thinking out loud. Springfield and Hartford would also make sense

[Berkshirian]

Are coming. The Montreal Royals on the "north shore" of Quebec and Ottawa. I don't know why Trois Rivieres does not have a team in their beautiful stadium. Don't hold your breath on the others, with the possible exception of the Plymouth River Eels, if a stadium is ever built. I'm surprised Pittsfield isn't considered with Waconah Park. The NECBL team can't be much of an obstacle. Utica, Glens Falls, Portsmouth, Niagara Falls (with the new Sal Muncie Stadium), would be great. The success of Brockton makes you think places like Woonsocket, Fitchburg, Asbury Park, or Perth Amboy might be worth a look.

Just rambling with ideas.......

[hfxhockeyfan]

Could Atlantic Canada support a team ?

Dartmouth NS, Moncton NB, & Summerside PEI are great baseball cities.

[timman19]

I heard recently a possibility exists of some sort of agreement between Can Am and the Atlantic League. Supposedly, the Can Am league would operate as a minor league system for the Atlantic League. I heard that from a reporter covering a recent Somerset Patriots Game.

[Andre Tippett 4 HOF]

how about in Boston or right next to Boston...of course there is a 20 mile radius...enough people are tired of paying these high prices at Fenway.

[valdor]

Pittsfield, CanAm league being there, done that!
For 2 years, crowds we're so low tha you could hear infielders talking
to eachother
Wahcona Field is not up to any professionnal standards.

Glens Falls: CanAm (or Northeast League) barely survive five or six years. Beside fireworks night, crowds we're in hundreds more than thousands. East Field: the only place we're a football game made the field better for baseball!

[Skyhawker]

how about ottawa, they won't have a team after this year, they could keep everything the same, still be the ottawa lynx, with the same jerseys and everything. what about a team near howell, michigan, or a team out in the adirondacks, delaware, west virginia, lake superior area, albany, they could expand north up into canada more, what about another team in connecticut

[Morris Mott]

how about in Boston or right next to Boston...of course there is a 20 mile radius...enough people are tired of paying these high prices at Fenway.


Having an Independent ball club in the same city as a major league team is a tried and true idea. Look at the Northern League... they have the T-Bones in Kansas City(drawing 6,000 each game) as well as Gary, Schaumburg and Joliet in the Chicago area. Plus the American Association has the St.Paul Saints drawing 6,000 fans per game in the same geographical areas as the Twins.

[Skyhawker]

they will not be coming back next season or so i have heard, they are folding, n nashua has also hinted towards folding, which means it'll be the skyhawks, rox, cutters, surf, grays, jackals, capitals, and the tornadoes, i hope the season isnt shortened, i think it should be expanded to 105, 15 games agiainst each team, 15 x 7 is 105, then is should be 2 divisions, tornadoes, rox, grays, capitals in the north and skyhawks, jackals, cutters, and surf in the south, then have the top two in each play each other like, say the jackals come in first in the south, then they will play say the rox who come in second in the north, then the capitals who come in first in the north, play say the skyhawks, who say are second in the south, they play a 5 game series, then the championship is 7 games, 3 at each stadium, and then the last is determined, by who won, game six. o and hoo should become the coaches for the skyhawks? i say, manager should be an old met, how about lenny dykstra, or todd hundley, how about brian mcrae, and pitching coach should be rick reed, or maybe lenny harris and the hitting coach could be bernard gilkey, or darryl hamilton or todd zeile, pitching coach would be dennis cook or turk wendell

[medtheatre]

not a chance of lenny dykstra coming to the skyhawks as a coach. he's plenty busy in his 2nd career (which he's actually been much more successful in and has made the money he earned in the majors look like peanuts) in the stock market. he's well respected in the financial world... if you google him, you'll find his articles, commentary, etc... you're more likely to see him on tv nowadays discussing stocks than baseball.

[icesk8ingtrezzafan]

how about in Boston or right next to Boston...of course there is a 20 mile radius...enough people are tired of paying these high prices at Fenway.

There has been a CanAm League just 15 miles North of Boston in Lynn, MA. THE NORTH SHORE SPIRIT but it folded at the end of this season even though the team made the playoffs.

The Spirit is the best part of living in Lynn and it's being taken away from us. We love the Spirit. I'm just a kid but I want to help find a way to keep the team in Lynn. I'm so sad thinking I won't be able to go to any Spirit games next summer. It makes me want to cry. . I am 9 and have been going to games since I was 4. It'll be so sad for the kids that won't have anything to do. I'll miss going to the games with all my friends and seeing the new friends I made at the ballpark.
And please keep on sending my online petition to everyone you know
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveOurNorthShoreSpirit/
Be sure to check out my blog at http://alextrezzafanclub.blogspot.com/
Here's a link to the North Shore Sunday Article
http://www.townonline.com/northshoresunday/homepage/x2033924180

Link to Boston Globe Story
www.boston.com/north


See my blog at http://alextrezzafanclub.blogspot.com/
and you'll see why the Spirit is so important to us kids. I have 447 signatures. I got 209 signatures on the Internet but I want a million. I got 238 signatures on paper that I got by talking to people.
My only teams are North Shore Spirit and the Red Sox. People wouldn't think it was no big deal if the Red Sox stopped playing and quit Fenway. People wouldn't just go pick another team to cheer for and I won't do that to the Spirit. I grew up at Spirit games at Fraser Field and made a lot of friends there. Today Nick Lopardo posted a letter on the North Shore Spirit Website saying the team won't be back but I'M NOT GIVING UP . I'm still continuing my SOS campaign and I have 447 signatures. The story was in the Boston Globe North today. it's online at www.boston.com/north and wbz.com has a video of the last game. If I can I'll try to get a copy of the channel 5 story and post it on my blog too. We have to save our team! Spirit games are the best and us kids love everyone there. We'll all be so sad if they don't come back next year. Kids in Lynn won't have anything fun to do and we all made lots of good friends at the games.