Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Farm teams come back to the farm.

DANVILLE, Ill. -- The Danville Dans are pleased to announce the relocation and renaming of the team's minor league system, hoping to draw on the rich baseball tradition in the Midwest.

Danville's triple-A team moves to Huntingburg, In., and is renamed the "DuBois County Bombers". The team finished fourth in the Zotti League triple-A standings in 2007 as the Davis Frogs. The Bombers will now play home games at the historic League Stadium, which opened in 1894 and was a primary filming location for the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own."

Danville's double-A team moves to Quincy, Ill., and is renamed the "Quincy Gems". The team finished second in the Zotti League double-A standings in 2007 as the Reseda Palms. The Gems will now play home games in Quincy Stadium, originally built in 1938 by President Roosevelt's WPA, and former home of farm teams of the New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets and Chicago Cubs.

Danville's single-A team moves to Springfield, Ill. and is renamed the "Springfield Rifles". The team finished second in the Zotti League single-A standings in 2007 as the Shasta Glissade.

The minor league teams were slated to move to central Illinois with the Dans for the 2007 season, but administrative snafus kept the farm teams in place.

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