It appears that a new independent baseball league being launched by DL Sports Enterprises led by long-time minor league/indy front office man Bill Larsen will make its debut in 2010. The new league has no announced name and no players, but a new three year lease deal has been approved for the league to use Luther Martin Field in Macon, GA. In its inaugural season, the league will operate with four teams, and all games will be played at the historic Macon ballpark. Expansion to other markets could happen in the future. Read more here.
We wish Bill Larsen the best. He has certainly faced his challenges since departing from the affiliated ranks. He served as the GM for the Frontier League’s one-year-wonder Kenosha (WI) Mammoths in 2003 (we were there), tried to launch the Great Lakes League in the Missouri region that would have included Clemens Field in Hannibal (now home to the summer collegiate Prospect League’s successful Hannibal Cavemen) in 2004, and recently did a short stint as GM for the independent professional Atlantic League’s Bridgeport Bluefish.
Larsen was also one of the backers of a proposed 6,000-seat, $3 million stadium in small town of Harvard, IL in McHenry County a couple of years ago that would have been home to a new four-team league, similar to the inaugural Macon model.
As many of you know, Macon fans have been the victims of a couple of recent indy league failures, including the Macon Music from the defunct South Coast League (2007), and the Macon Peaches from the defunct Southeastern League (2002-2003).
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