Here is a video explaining everything in greater detail:
In addition, the last remaining tryout for 2009 will take place on December 30 in El Paso. It is being run by the Continental Baseball League’s Big Bend Cowboys. Be sure to contact them at www.BigBendCowboys.com for directions, tryout fees, and other relevant information.
If you want a resource to keep up to date with the managers in the independent professional baseball leagues then be sure to visit and bookmark this site: http://www.independentbaseball.net/managers/ The link for each team also will tell you the names of any hitting coaches, pitching coaches, and other independent baseball team coaching staff members.
The Las Cruces Vaqueros will be a new independent minor league baseball team in Las Cruces, New Mexico. They will begin play in 2010 and are a franchise in the Continental Baseball League.
Here is some more information including a link to the TV news clip:
Here is a news article about an independent minor league player having to live at an assisted care/seniors facility as his “host family” for the summer in the Frontier League:
If you, or anyone you know, needs some basic/introductory information on the independent baseball leagues then these new web pages may be of help to them:
There is a new website which covers everything to do with independent baseball. It has information for fans, links to all independent baseball leagues and teams, lists the social media (Twitter, Facebook) sites for the teams, and much more.
