1 April 2034: The Knights completed their planned expansion of Giselle-Duppa Field and revealed the new design to the press in a brief conference this morning. The seating expansion takes the stadium to a capacity of 38,000 and incorporated some of the features from the initially designed third base grandstand which had a unique, expandable […]
Tempe legend Raul Cruz who retired from pro baseball this offseason and became the first Knight to have his jersey number retired by the organization, was recently hired to develop the next generation of Tempe’s pitching talent. Cruz was appointed as the club’s pitching coach in short season A Whitehorse and will have a tough […]
December 26, 2031: In what was billed as “the dawn of a new era in Tempe baseball” Knights principal owner Chris Van Hauter held an ad hoc press conference today to announce plans for the construction of a new stadium for his baseball club. The location, which was reportedly purchased by the Van Hauter Group […]
December 17, 2031: Only hours prior to a scheduled hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Geneva, the Tempe Knights and Tempe Heat F.C. have agreed to terms which would allow the Knights some scheduling rights for the upcoming 2032 baseball season at the team’s shared home, The Keep. While details have yet […]
December 10, 2031: The signage has been hung around town and inside the park. Expectations for Tempe’s return to the big leagues are high both within the clubhouse and in the executive offices. Yet as the Tempe Knights begin the last step in their long road back to the PEBA, it seems they find themselves […]
Tempe, Arizona – 23 November 2030, In a shocking move today, owner and business mogul Chris Van Hauter of the World Independent Baseball League’s Long Beach Oilers announced that his franchise was relocating to Tempe in advance of a 2032 return to the PEBA. Van Hauter made the announcement at a hastily scheduled press conference […]
Things were moving fast. Van Hauter had succeeded in convincing PEBA commissioner Harry Castle that his plan had legs, and may have even used some unspecified ‘leverage’ to achieve his desired result. Leaving PEBA headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina, Van Hauter had traveled straight to Florence, Kentucky where he had an unproductive sit down with […]
“You’re doing what!?” Van Hauter pounded his fist with a thunderous crash into the desk in exasperation. “This is an utter betrayal. An act of war…. after all I did for you…” he was interrupted by an equally exasperated voice on the other end of the line. “I don’t want to hear it. I […]
“We need to do something. Something big….” he said into the receiver, almost speaking to himself. For three days the usually larger than life owner of the Long Beach Oilers, Chris Van Hauter, had been locked in his office attempting to hatch a plan. Seven years prior, Van Hauter had unceremoniously departed the world’s […]
Crystal Lake, Illinois; September 8, 2019 – The long unsettled ownership situation in Crystal Lake appears to be in flux again as rumors of waning interest and growing distrust by front office executives of current Sandgnats owner and Venezuelan business mogul Juan Cuevas intensify. Cuevas, who purchased a majority stake in the Sandgnats from the […]
