Category: Golden Baseball League

Darryl Brinkley on the cover of a 2007 Calgary Vipers Baseball Program from the Northern League Baseball

Calgary Vipers

March 22, 2024

This well-travelled independent pro baseball team played in a succession of indy leagues of decreasingly poorer quality from 2005 through 2011. The Vipers were always great on the field, posting only one losing season in their history and appearing in three consecutive league championship series 2007 and 2009. Calgary was the champion of the Golden Baseball League in 2009. But the team never developed a strong following at Foothills Stadium. The team finally folded after the 2011 season, done in by anemic local support and the serious illness of long-time owner Jeff Gidney, who would ultimately pass away the following year.

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2007 St. George Roadrunners program from the Golden Baseball League

St. George Roadrunners

December 2, 2022

The St. George Roadrunners were a Utah-based independent minor league baseball team that scrapped and clawed its way through four seasons in the Golden Baseball League between 2007 and 2010. The Roadrunners were the second independent league club to try to make a go of it at Bruce Hurst Field on the campus of Dixie State College. The Zion Pioneerzz/St. George Pioneerzz of the Western Baseball League at the 2,500-seat ballpark from 1999 to 2001.

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Edmonton Cracker Cats Baseball

Edmonton Cracker-Cats

December 29, 2020

The Edmonton Cracker-Cats were a shambolic independent baseball operation that arrived at Telus Field in the spring of 2005 in the wake of the departure of the Class AAA Edmonton Trappers of the Pacific Coast League. The ‘Cats arguably received more attention for a 2006 brawl against the rival Calgary Vipers than any on-field accomplishments. But the club did manage to develop two future Major Leaguers in pitchers Robert Coello and Scott Richmond.

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2006 Long Beach Armada pocket schedule from the Golden Baseball League

Long Beach Armada

August 5, 2018

Golden Baseball League (2005-2009) Born: 2005 – Golden Baseball League founding franchise Folded: Postseason 2009 First Game: May 26, 2005 (L 9-2 @ San Diego

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2005 Mesa Miners program from the Golden Baseball League

Mesa Miners

December 28, 2017

The Mesa Miners were an independent professional baseball team that played for just one season in the now-defunct Golden Baseball League. The Miners advanced to the 2005 Golden League championship series where they lost to the San Diego Surf Dawgs. League officials contracted the team at the end of the Golden League’s debut season.

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