Minor League Baseball News

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and there are some popular choices and unique treats to give for your sweetheart.

The Double-A league is searching for a replacement for Huntsville's Don Mincher, who stepped down at the end of the 2011 season due to health reasons.

The Albuquerque Isotopes and Ovations Food Services will host its 10th annual Job Fair on Saturday from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Isotopes Park.

Patrons stand at Motorco Music Hall in Durham. The venue has nooks and crannies that make it an interesting place to stage a show.

The high-flying Vancouver Northeast Chiefs have regained their offensive flare and jumped back on a winning streak, thanks to a sweep of the Kootenay Ice in B.C. The Chiefs shook off two losses to the Vancouver Canadians the previous week to deck Kootenay 5-4 and 10-0 at Coquitlam's Planet Ice.

A former Rochester Red Wings player was shot and killed in South Carolina. Danny Clyburn was found dead in the front yard of a home in Lancaster.

If attendance at past job fairs is any marker, more than 1,000 will head to Isotopes Park hoping to land a seasonal position for the 2012 season, which begins April 5. Ovations Food Services Positions are available in ticket sales, security, food preparation and concessions vending.

Among this weekend's highlights: Flight 19 will perform at the Cabin Fever Benefit for the Blair County Respiratory Disease Society on Friday evening at the UVA Club in Altoona.

What was the Blair County Ballpark now officially has a new name. The ballpark along I-99 has been re-named "Peoples Natural Gas Field." Details of the agreement between the Altoona Curve and Peoples Natural Gas were released on Tuesday.

Seek Publishing and Birmingham Barons owner Don Logan will speak at the Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce's awards luncheon Feb.

"It's basically like a lot of your little microbrews that are around town," Grueser said.

Slim crowds have become a common sight for Huntsville Stars games at Joe Davis Stadium, the oldest ballpark in the Southern League.

Saturday was the first step for some folks hoping to sing the national anthem at an Altoona Curve game this season.

There are sources of pride, and then there's the way Brad Hildebrandt and his Omaha Skutt wrestling team look at their annual tournament.

Blair County has minimal say in the pending sale of naming rights for the Blair County Ballpark, the county commissioners said Tuesday.

After being a quiet game, the last 5 minutes really was the most exciting part in this game as it had some weird moments.

Louie the Bowie Baysox mascot took a break from the ballpark on Jan. 12 and came to Crofton Middle School to surprise seventh-grader Caroline Kerr, who designed the winning poster that will be used to promote the team's "Read and Hit a Home Run" program.

While the officials with the Altoona Curve say they cannot comment on the new relationship at this time, a representative from the Pittsburgh Based People's Natural Gas Company has confirmed that at deal in place over the naming rights to the Stadium located in Logan Township along the side of Interstate 99.

Mayor Tommy Battle is tapping the brakes on a proposal to build a new downtown ballpark for the Huntsville Stars.

Smith's hot dogs will remain the official hot dog of the Erie SeaWolves, at least through the baseball team's 2014 season.