In its third season hosting CBU baseball games, Vic Chestnut Memorial Park will see the 10,000,000 patron walk through its gates. Number 10-million is expected to activate the turnstile sometime during the upcoming September 19 – 21 series versus the Akron Dandies.
At the recent press conference announcing the pending milestone, Bandits’ owner David Hepler had this to say, “The Redbank organization is very proud to be the first to reach this number in one city. VC Memorial will be the only CBU ballpark to have reached that number. The community …

On January 15, 2010, the Redbank Bandits thought Will Hill would be their Ace and veteran, staff anchor. They had just signed the free agent to a four year, $66 million deal. Exactly three months later however, the training staff wasn’t sure if he would ever pitch again.
After pitching just 1/3 of an inning, Hill was removed from the 2010 season opener due to a partially torn Ulner Collateral Ligament in his throwing arm. At age 32, Hill was scheduled to undergo Tommy John surgery and there was …

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 …