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Pitcher Dan Runzler on the cover of a 2019 Sugar Land Skeeters Baseball Program from the Atlantic League

Sugar Land Skeeters

March 5, 2024

The Skeeters were a popular independent baseball team that parlayed their location 20 minutes southwest of Houston, box office appeal and clean, modern ballpark into an unlikely promotion to Triple-A affiliated baseball in 2021. The team began play in April 2012 as an expansion team in the Atlantic League, an indy circuit whose other seven members were all located in the northeastern U.S. and the mid-Atlantic region. During their indy days, the Skeeters ginned up headlines by signing retired Major League and NBA superstars Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro and Tracy McGrady to play for the club in cameo appearances. The Skeeters got serious after the Houston Astros purchased the club in 2021 and made the team its top farm club as the Class AAA level. After one Triple-A season as the Skeeters in 2021, the team re-branded as the Sugar Land Space Cowboys in January 2022.

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Camden Riversharks Atlantic League Baseball

Camden Riversharks

October 10, 2020

The Camden Riversharks were an independent professional baseball team that played at Campbell’s Field, a $24 million waterfront re-development project at the base of the Ben Franklin Bridge into Philadelphia. Though the ‘Sharks ultimately played 15 seasons in the Atlantic League between 2001 and 2015, the untimely death of team founder Steve Shilling in 2003 and the team’s debt burden from the construction of Campbell’s Field undermined the the ball club’s health for years on end. The Riversharks folded in 2015.

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1999 Nashua Pride Baseball Program from the Atlantic League

Nashua Pride

August 9, 2011

Atlantic League (1998-2005) Can-Am League (2006-2008) Born: 1997 – Atlantic League founding franchise Re-Branded: 2009 (American Defenders of New Hampshire) First Game: May 21, 1998

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