Southern Leaguer

What's the big deal? They have played in Huntsville the last several years without a working video board and a scoreboard no better than an average high school.

Nice AA debut for Michael Strong tonight. 4 IP - 0 H - 1 BB - 6 K.

It was his 23rd game (21st start) for the Stars?

A little humor from a Huntsville satire site

http://whnt.com/2013/12/18/breaking-owners-approve-move-of-huntsville-stars-to-mississippi/

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/12/huntsville_stars_move_to_bilox.html http://whnt.com/2013/12/10/developing-huntsville-stars-move-to-biloxi-to-be-discussed-at-baseball-winter-meetings-wednesday/

De La Cruz last night became the 750th Huntsville Star (416th as a Brewer affiliate, 1999-2013).

http://i.imgur.com/r5N5m7a.gif Very good! Obviously the only thing Mr. Kling knows about Wrigley is that it is old. The Joe has no personality at all and (unless they have fixed/upgraded since last season) a high school scoreboard. 3 AL ROY? Has he even been to the stadium since the A's left? Has he heard of Braun? And none of them were there because Joe Davis Stadium drew them there ... The Joe is more like the Oakland Coliseum (Mauseleum?) than Wrigley. We still will go when we can just to see some good baseball but would rather go catch the Stars when they are in B'ham, Chattanooga, Montgomery or Mississippi.

Thanks, Mass Haas. Since Dunn is one of the Huntsville players I haven't been able to find a card of, I was hoping he was still playing somewhere.

Jameson Dunn? I remember some injury troubles but missed any release/retirement news.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130330&content_id=43555338&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_t503&sid=t503

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130330&content_id=43548816&vkey=pr_t556&fext=.jsp&sid=t556

I don't specifically collect Brewers cards but I do have minor league cards of 725 of the 730 players who have appeared with the Huntsville Stars. I have cards of all 53 Seattle Pilots (although the Billy Williams card is as a coach for the 1989 Canton Indians). I have cards of players from favorite teams I pulled for in the Series in my youth - '65 Twins, '66 Oriloes, '67 Red Sox, '68 Tigers, '69 Mets, '70 Orioles, '71 Pirates, '72-'74 A's, etc. I have full Topps sets put back for my son starting with the year he was born ('77) until he turned 20. I figured he could get them himself after that ... Now I'm doing the same thing for my grandson, born in '02. My other son was born in '81 and I got Fleer sets for him starting that year until they dropped out of the full-set market. I've got lots of Huntsville Stars souvenir stuff - bats, helmets, caps, mitts, schedules, team pix... Many cards signed by Stars players, a couple of team signed mini-helmets, a team signed program and more. All of my autographs are personal. My favorites from Huntsville are Braun, Gallardo, Sheets and some favorite players that never made it big (Jared Mathis, Derek Lee, etc.). I've not even tried to get any the last few years. I've also been lucky enough to meet and get cards signed by Brooks Robinson, Lou Brock, Earl Weaver, Dale Murphy and others. I met Nolan Ryan in the museum at Arlington, Tx Stadium. I didn't have a card with me but he signed the museum pamphlet I had.

The writer of that article has it figured like I do. I think the Brewers only choice will be Huntsville and that's good with me since I perfer a National League team and Brewerfan.net is such a great resource. I doubt if the Mariners have anything online that comes close to this.

I've seen a report that Miami and Jacksonville have re-upped. Hard to believe that Akron and Cleveland won't do the same. Just my opinion, but I think Arkansas is holding all the cards - they should be able to get the best offer from the Angels/Mariners/Brewers, the two left over will make a run at Jackson and Huntsville will get the last one standing.