It was a beautiful afternoon in Chugiak: sun, 70 degrees and a ball game in which the home town Chinooks hosted the league-champion Pilots. Thats right, I said champion! For those of you who are as ignorant as I was about the ABL rules, the league tiebreaker goes to the winner of the season series. [...]

It was Military Appreciation night at Hermon Brothers field, with the home team Miners donning their camo jerseys for a game against the Glacier Pilots of Anchorage. But few fans appreciated the weather, with temperatures dipping into the 40s and wind gusting hard from right to left on a dreary day. The few who managed [...]

This past Saturday I made the drive in to Anchorage to see the “Summer Solstice Showdown” between the visiting Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks and the home team Glacier Pilots. The game is similar in principle to the Goldpanners’ Midnight Sun Game: it starts late and it wraps up well past midnight at a time when the [...]