Tag: C.O. Brown Stadium

Southwest Michigan Devil Rays

December 27, 2020

The Southwest Michigan Devil Rays of 2005-2006 were the last of three relatively short-lived Minor League Baseball teams to make their home at Battle Creek’s C.O. Brown Stadium between 1995 and 2006. The Devil Rays followed on the heels of the Michigan Battle Cats (1995-2002) and the Battle Creek Yankees (2003-2004). Each club was an iteration of the same Class A Midwest League franchise, which cycled through four different ownership groups and four different Major League parent clubs across a dozen seasons. The team moved to Midland, Michigan and became the Great Lakes Loons in 2007.

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Michigan Battle Cats

Michigan Battle Cats

December 17, 2017

Once upon a time – 1995, to be exact – there was a new minor league baseball entry in the Midwest League to be known as the Battle Creek Golden Kazoos. Locals took a dim view of the name – they hated it, actually. But the absentee owner lived in Virginia and it’s not clear that community uproar alone would have been enough to silence the Golden Kazoos. Enter local oddball George Hubka.

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