He has an all-time great baseball name that carries an almost fictional quality. Couldn’t you imagine Ray Kinsella picking up Boots Day instead of Moonlight Graham along that road to Iowa?
Graham, of course, was no “Field of Dreams” creation, which I discovered as an avid 13-year-old fan in possession of a handy Baseball Encyclopedia.
Day, too, [...]
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AtlanticLeagueBaseball.com reports that the Harrisburg Senators have released Juan Melo. The infielder batted .239 with four homers and 23 RBIs in 54 games for the Washington Nationals’ Double-A club.
Melo played 22 games for the Barnstormers in 2005. He hit .299 with two homers and 15 RBIs before being picked up by Washington on Memorial Day [...]
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On paper they look like they’re going to be really good. I like their pitching staff. Their top three or four guys are pretty impressive.
Four months have passed since Tom Herr left the Barnstormers to join the Hagerstown Suns. Even though he’s no longer part of the organization, he still keeps in contact with his [...]
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There’s a column in today’s New Era about former Barnstormers manager Tom Herr, who made his debut with the Single-A Hagerstown Suns tonight. The Suns lost 5-4 to the Hickory Crawdads at Municipal Stadium.
Next week at Barnstormin’: Herr discusses this year’s Barnstormers roster, offers his reaction to Reggie Taylor getting released by the Nationals and [...]
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Reggie Taylor didn’t make the cut with the Washington Nationals. He was released earlier in the week.
Taylor found himself in an uphill climb this spring. He wasn’t invited to Nationals camp until two weeks after it started and the organization already had an excess of veteran outfielders.
With the Double-A and Triple-A seasons set to begin [...]
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It turns out Reggie Taylor is in minor-league camp with the Washington Nationals. The former Barnstormers outfielder has been in Melbourne, Fla. for the past two weeks trying to earn a spot with the Nationals’ Double-A or Triple-A affiliate.
Taylor said he’s having a good spring and he’s cautiously optimistic about his prospects of landing a [...]
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