In a brief announcement that ran the social media circuit this morning, Warriors management announced that 6-year franchise coach Dallas Pollard was terminated five years before the expiration of his contract. “We wish Dallas and his family well in the future. Given the frustrations at the mound for Duluth this season, there was mutual agreement […]
“From my earliest childhood I’ve felt that something was going on in the groves, something of which I was not a part.” –John Steinbeck The unbridled energy of the stadium in Fargo was palpable even from the television set on another end of the country. All of this baseball season, which pushed the edges […]
Sunday, July 6th, 2036 Duluth, MN It’s Sunday night in Lake Superior’s aging baseball cathedral, with the crackling loudspeakers of Doyle Buhl Stadium blaring somewhere high above the clubhouse. The atmosphere of the humid locker room is generally upbeat; this young and scrappy collection of agile, expressive athletes have just soundly defeated the Borealis after a […]
Don’t Fear the Reaper? Duluth, MN February 26th, 2028 What’s in a name? Not much, if you ask Duluth’s new skipper, Danny Grimes, who the players have already started calling “The Reaper.” “Kids have no [expletive] discipline these days,” Grimes told the Duluth Times, sitting in his clubhouse office. As we spoke, workers were hastily […]
Great Lakes Gossip: Heart Throb Juan Velásquez is Muttoned and Ready to Unbutton Hold on to your pocket warmers, ladies of the north. Rookie Outfielder Juan “Chief” Velásquez was spotted in downtown Duluth last weekend sporting a new, gorgeous mutton-chop style beard. In a brief interview conducted while attempting to keep pace with the Left […]
Julian “Rainmaker” Thomas joins the Duluth Staff February 26th, 2035 Suwon, Republic of South Korea Officials at Warrior Hall confirmed this week that five-time PEBA All-Star Julian Thomas was selected as the new Pitching Coach of the Suwon Morning Swords (R). Thomas, who accumulated apx. 30 WAR for Duluth in 7 seasons, was drafted by […]
ACHILLES IN THE TRENCH Written by D. Visscher Asheville, NC 2034 Planetary Extreme Baseball League Winter Meetings December 23rd, 2034 Ricky McCoy paused with his hand on the silver handle of the limousine, with the neon glow of the Asheville Hotel casting circles of electric holiday light on the windows. His gaze drifted thoughtfully from […]
THE TIN GATE: AN INTERVIEW WITH NARAHIKO IMADA Written by Emerson Clay, Hartford Harpoon Chief Historian 10/5/2034 Narahiko Imada, 49, reclines in the oak chair and gazes out across Kagoshima Bay, toward the slumbering volcano that produced this “Naples of the East” some 29,000 years ago. The mountain looms large against the morning sky […]
Miles to Go, Part I Written by D. Visscher “It doesn’t take much to make me see how little I know about the simplest things.” –Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut (2019-2022) Hartford, Connecticut September 18th, 2034 His fingertips drummed against the surface of his watch—too expensive, and a gift he should have parted […]
Swansboro Link to Forum Article May 1st, 2032 Swanboro, North Carolina—near the water Ricky McCoy’s tattered left sneaker scraped as he pivoted hard right along Spring Street. The Carolina mist still rose beyond the warped wooden boards that marked the edges of Bogue Inlet. It was an ugly town—an uneven stack of red brick […]
