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The 2010 LumberKings season was the subject of the 2013 book "Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere" by Lucas Mann. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2016, led by first year manager Mitch Canham , the LumberKings won 86 games to set the mark for most in a regular season by any team in Clinton franchise history.
NelsonCorp Field is a stadium in Clinton, Iowa. It is primarily used for baseball, and is operated by and is the home field of the Clinton LumberKings collegiate summer baseball team of the Prospect League. It was built in 1937 and its capacity is roughly 5,500 fans.
Clinton opens opens its season 6:30 p.m. Thursday night against the Burlington Bees. It will be the team's first season in the wood bat Prospect League. Over half of the team's players on the ...
Jun. 29—PROSPECT LEAGUE BASEBALL Clinton LumberKings 6, Normal Cornbelters 4 The LKings picked up a home win Sunday at NelsonCorp Field. Clinton's Adam Weed went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a run.
Moreland with the Clinton LumberKings in 2008 The Texas Rangers selected Moreland in the 17th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft . After he signed, Moreland began his professional career with the short-season Spokane Indians of the Northwest League .
Jul. 23—CLINTON — The Clinton LumberKings walked off the Quincy Gems 6-5 in twelve innings on Friday night. After the Gems rallied to tie the game in the eighth, it took four innings but Luke ...
The original teams in 1956, the first year of Midwest League play, were: Clinton Pirates, Decatur Commodores, Dubuque Packers, Kokomo Dodgers, Lafayette Red Sox, Mattoon Phillies, Michigan City White Caps and the Paris Lakers. Mattoon is the oldest franchise in the MWL, evolving into today's Fort Wayne TinCaps, while Clinton is the oldest MWL ...
Prior to the 1963 season, Major League Baseball (MLB) initiated a reorganization of Minor League Baseball that resulted in a reduction from six classes to four (Triple-A, Double-A, Class A, and Rookie) in response to the general decline of the minors throughout the 1950s and early-1960s when leagues and teams folded due to shrinking attendance caused by baseball fans' preference for staying at ...