Even as they prepare to take on Orlando in the inaugural CBU World Series, other issues seem to creep into the minds of the Akron Dandies front office. Earl Grant, who looks to play a big role whether the Dandies can upset the Orcas, is at the end of his brief contract. Negotiations have been slow. It’s no secret that Akron has one of the higher payrolls in the league (2nd only to Colorado). Even with letting a few contracts expire next month there still isn’t a lot of money …

All season long the clubs that make up the CBU’s Veeck Division have lived with the possibility that the entire division might finish under .500. Talk began immediately this spring after the division posted a paltry 35-61 combined Spring Training record, and continued straight through the All Star break. While experts haven’t routinely agreed on much during this inaugural CBU season, there’s one issue they have no doubts about: the Veeck Division is the weakest in all of baseball.
An intra-division trade between the Akron Dandies and Redbank Bandits …

July 14th 2009 | Princeton Fieldhouse
44,686 fans were in attendance in the Princeton Fieldhouse as the best of the best in the Classic Baseball Union battled it out in the league’s first All-Star game. On a cool night with a slight wind the Landis League and Giamatti League All-Stars took to the field for the 7:05 game time to begin writing history. Taking the mound was Whitehorse’s ace Gustavo Diaz versus Gaston Couture of New Orleans. Couture would go on to line out to centerfield, Sioux Falls’s Bryan Wigmore would …