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The Northwoods League is a Summer Collegiate Baseball Association( SCBA) sanctioned summer baseball league comprised of 24 teams of the top college players from across the nation and North America. All players in the league must have NCAA or NAIA eligibility remaining in order to participate. Players are not paid( this preserves their NCAA eligibility).
Each team is operated similar to a professional minor league team, providing players an opportunity to play under the same conditions using wooden bats, minor league specification baseballs, experiencing overnight road trips, and playing nightly before fans in a stadium.
The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. Having completed its’ 28th season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 24 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, over 230 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer( NYM), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist( CHC) and Brandon Crawford( SFG), 2019 Rookie of the Year and Home Run Derby Champion Pete Alonso( NYM), World Series Champion Chris Sale( BOS) and MLB All-Stars Jordan Zimmermann( DET) and Curtis Granderson( MIA). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. For more information, visit www. northwoodsleague. com or download the Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play.
Dick Radatz, Jr.
Dick Radatz, Jr. is a co-founder of the Northwoods League and has an educational background and work experience in sports administration. Upon completion of a Master’ s degree in Sports Administration, from Ohio University, Dick worked as an Administrative Assistant for the Los Angeles Dodgers at their Spring Training site in Vero Beach, FL. He then spent a year as General Manager of the Boston Red Sox entry in the New York-Penn League, setting a single-season attendance record, before serving six years managing the business operations of the Boston Red Sox Spring Training site in Winter Haven, FL, and as General Manager of the Red Sox wholly-owned subsidiary in the Florida State League, where he set another single-season attendance record. He was named Florida State League Executive of the Year in 1986.
Following his pro baseball tenure, Dick was Assistant Director of Operations for Michigan Special Olympics. Dick is a graduate of Albion College( MI) with a B. A. in Economics and Management. He was also Captain of the baseball team at Albion and a four-year letter winner. In 2016, Radatz was inducted into the Florida State League Hall of Fame.
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