Mountain Collegiate League Aggressively Expands

After sitting at four teams for years, the Mountain Collegiate Baseball League (MCBL) based in Colorado has decided to energize expansion.  The league lost the Laramie (WY) Colts in the offseason (a long story there) but have added three new Colorado franchises  — the Colorado Springs Blue Sox, (Golden) Colorado Bobcats, and Northern Colorado (Johnstown) Toros — to the league’s 2013 lineup

American Legion’s Exclusive Control of Powers Field Being Challenged

The Mountain Collegiate Baseball League’s Cheyenne Grizzlies and other local amateur baseball groups have essentially been blocked from using Powers Field, a $3 million facility built several years ago and leased exclusively to American Legion Post 6 for $1 per year for 15 years.