The Dubois County Dragons were a southern Indiana indepenent baseball team that played seven seasons between 1996 and 2002. The Dragons played in the Heartland League from 1996 to 1998 and then jumped to the Frontier League in 1999. Following the 2002 season, the team moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Frontier League (1999-2019) Born: 1998 – The inactive Zanesville Greys relocate to O’Fallon, MO Folded (Announced): August 12, 2019 First Game: Final Game: September 16, 2019 Frontier
The Canton Crocodiles were an independent minor league baseball team that took up residence in Canton, Ohio’s Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in 1997. The Crocs replaced the departing Canton-Akron Indians (1989-1996), the Class AA farm club of the Cleveland Indians, who were lured away by neighboring Akron’s development of $31 million Canal Park in 1997.
The Portsmouth Explorers were an independent professional baseball team in the small (pop. 20,000) Southern Ohio city of Portsmouth during the mid-1990’s. The Explorers were one of eight original members of the Frontier League (1993-present), which is the oldest independent baseball league in the country at the time of this writing. The team disbanded in 1995 after three seasons of play.
The Cook County Cheetahs were a low-level independent pro baseball team in Crestwood, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago. The team’s origins trace back to the Will County (IL) Claws (1995) of the obscure North Central League, who were later renamed the Will County Cheetahs (1996-1997). New ownership group re-branded the team as the Windy City Thunderbolts prior to the 2004 season, bringing the Cheetahs era to an end.
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