“The Disney Way”: How Minor League Baseball Uses Fun and Community to Maximize Fan Experience
By Ashton Pollard Medill Reports Fireworks. Sugar. A Ferris wheel. An escape from reality. Sounds like a day at a theme park. It’s also a day at a Minor League Baseball park, an experience that has finally returned after a canceled 2020 season. Unlike Major League Baseball, minor league ballclubs do not have control over […]
Alex Calarco looks forward to Northwestern and beyond after COVID-19
By Ashton Pollard Medill Reports A couple of trash cans. A single batting cage. A canceled season. It was not exactly the junior spring Alex Calarco imagined. But at least he didn’t have to worry about recruiting. Calarco, a senior catcher at New Trier High School, has been committed to Northwestern since his sophomore year. […]
‘He’s one of the guys’: How a longtime Cedar Rapids bat boy became part of the Kernels family
By Ashton Pollard Medill Reports Jon Teig grew up as a Cedar Rapids Kernels kid. He spent his summers at the ballpark, chose the stadium as the location of his birthday parties and was occasionally a guest bat boy for the team, an opportunity he landed through a friend of his mother’s who was involved […]
