by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer June 2, 2042: Asheville, North Carolina – One typically sees teams mix their draft classes up – outfield-infield-pitchers, throw a catcher in there, college or high school, until a more or less balance class is achieved – tilted one direction or the other, based on need. Take Aurora […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer June 3, 2041: Asheville, North Carolina – The calendar turned to the first Monday of June as the annual PEBA amateur draft arrived, and this year for the Aurora Borealis it was a compact day that saw a reduced class after a busy 2040 draft that saw 24 […]
by Ray D. Enzé, Aurora baseball blogger April 1, 2041: Tempe, Arizona – Last year it was a wild pitch in the bottom of the 9th at the Ballpark formerly-known as YUM! that sent the Borealis home on Opening Day in Bakersfield and this year the dynamics may be different, but the results remain the same […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN beat writer March 31, 2041: Grand Junction, Colorado – For the 2041 version of the Aurora Borealis, it may be more about who is not here to open the season as it is who is. While much of the team will look familiar, there are some who are jettisoned – at […]
Ray D. Enzé, NLN baseball blogger January 17, 2041: Desert Hot Springs, California – It was a cool 74 degrees as I left the rental car agency at the Palm Springs International Airport and headed north towards Desert Hot Springs, California, to meet with Miguel Angel Galvez for the first time in over 20-years. Then, the young […]
By Francis Ferry, NLN beat writer December 15, 2040: Asheville, North Carolina – Often it has been that the Winter Meetings have been quiet time for Aurora. It has been four-years (2036) since the last Winter Meeting trade struck for the Borealis – sending Richard Neely, Paul de Kook, Taizo Fuji and $6.9M to Okinawa […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN beat writer June 4, 2040: Asheville, North Carolina – With the Borealis sitting at quite possibly their worst ever June 4th standing – 4-games under .500, in 5th place, and already 14-games behind Tempe out of 1st place (also a June 4th record), it was more than easy enough to turn […]
Ray D. Enzé, NLN baseball blogger May 7, 2040: Aurora, Colorado – The Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance is in their 34th season – a history of which has been mostly good for the Aurora Borealis, with five Rodriguez Cups (including the first three-peat in PEBA history) and another three Sovereign League crowns – though this […]
By Francis Ferry, NLN beat writer April 2, 2040: Bakersfield, California – When the players arrived at The Ballpark Formerly-Known as YUM! – The Oaks at Aera Field, it was a late-, lingering, winter moning in the California Central Valley as tule fog hung close and tight to the ground, keeping the air temps hovering […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer February 4, 2040: Santa Fe, New Mexico – I met with Aurora’s new Rookie League pitching coach on a chilly, late winter afternoon outside the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to catch up with the former-15th round pick (387 overall) of the Borealis in the […]
