Q&A with Cole Thompson, 2012 Oilers

Players, coaches, and assorted baseball personalities are converging upon Alaska this week, forming the teams that will compete for this year’s ABL crown. One player who will be making the trip up is right-handed pitcher Cole Thompson, a native of Plano, Texas and a junior at Centenary. Thompson has signed on to pitch for the [...]

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Q&A with Dan Edmonson

As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, I have the privledge of rubbing virtual elbows with some of theĀ preeminentĀ baseball bloggers on the web. One of those bloggers is Dan Edmonson, who blogs about the Texas Rangers over at Chicken Fried Baseball. Dan was kind enough to respond in detail to a few questions I [...]

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Interview: Marc Schoch, 2010 AIA Fire

It’s been a while since we’ve had an interview around here, so I tracked down Marc Schoch, catcher for the 2010 AIA Fire, to bounce a few questions off of. Schoch was chosen first-team All-ABL in 2010, and is headed into his junior season at La Salle university. Here’s what he had to say: 49th [...]

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