A Fan's Guide to the Midwest League

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Recent changes to A Fan's Guide to the Midwest League. Major changes are linked from this page; minor changes are usually just mentioned.

• A Roster a Weekday: Danville, Illinois. A New Page!

• A Roster a Weekday: Clinton, Iowa. The longest of the roster pages, by quite a bit....

• A Roster a Weekday: Centralia, Illinois. Another New Page!

• Still reading old Appleton yearbooks. Found some information about Ken Berry's, John Boles' and Duke Sims' coaching careers.

• Been looking at old Appleton yearbooks; Ed Holtz won MWL Executive of the Year five times in six years....
• A New Page! The 1949 Roster.

• A Roster a Weekday: Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

• Scouting Reports: Burlington and Clinton.
• A Roster a Weekday: Canton, Illinois. A New Page! (And a very short one.)

• Scouting Reports: South Bend and Quad Cities.
• A Roster a Weekday: Burlington, Iowa.

• Scouting Reports: Fort Wayne and Cedar Rapids.
• A Roster a Weekday: Beloit, Wisconsin.

• A Roster a Weekday: Belleville, Illinois. I also took the opportunity to add some information to the page for Belleville's ballpark.
• Scouting Reports: Dayton and Peoria.
• We continue to have difficulties with our cable connection. My apologies for any inconvenience; believe me, I'm feeling inconvenienced. (This is being posted from a local bar....)

• Scouting Reports: Great Lakes and Kane County.

• Scouting Reports: West Michigan and Beloit.

• A Roster a Weekday: Battle Creek, Michigan.
• Scouting Reports: Lansing and Wisconsin. Of course. (Apologies for yesterday's silence; our cable connection was down.)

• I've begun working over the Scouting Reports. All now show contain team profiles for April; I'll begin doing the player stats and team writeups tomorrow.
• A Roster a Weekday: Appleton, Wisconsin.

• The Bandits are coping with another Mississippi River flood. So far the stadium's undamaged.

• A New Page! The 1948 Roster. Don't expect this pace to continue....

• One last massive update to the manager pages: Ruben Amaro (slight change), Keith Bodie, Ken Bolek (minor change), Terry Francona (how did I miss Terry?), Wayne Krenchicki, Bryan Little, Joe Maddon (!), Mario Mendoza, Brad Mills (minor touchup), Joe Rigoli, Eddie Rodriguez, Mike Rojas (anyone know where Mike's working this summer?), Ed Romero (truly a minor touch), Dick Scott, Glenn Tufts. I also worked over the comments and source descriptions at the bottom of the Managers Index page.

• A New Page! An approximately-complete roster for the 1947 season. These seasonal rosters are actually the basis for the team and organization rosters; since I've finally gotten 1947 into reasonable shape, I'm willing to post it. More will come as I complete them, but I'm not hurrying through this part of the project.

• More manager page updates: Manny Acta, Craig Colbert, Mark DeJohn, Carlos Lezcano, Don Long (again; turns out yesterday was wrong), Dave Machemer, Steve McFarland, Lloyd Merritt (the very fact that I found him today almost certainly means I've missed many years of his career; needs followup), Keith Mitchell, Gaylen Pitts, Dan Radison, Rick Renteria, Dan Rohn, Tim Tolman, & Gary Varsho.

• More manager page updates: Ken Berry, Mike Brumley, Lorenzo Bundy, Jeff Carter, Roly de Armas, Rich Dubee, Mike Hart, Jim Lett, Don Long, Charlie Manuel, Don Money, Steve Roadcap, & Luis Salazar.

• Manager page updates to Keith Bodie, Andy Fox, Jim Pankovits, Al Pedrique, Steve Phillips, and Carlos Tosca.

• Been fixing some busted links....
• The Dragons and Reds have extended their PDC.

• Taking a few days off. See you next week.
• 2008 Scouting Report Updates: Great Lakes & West Michigan. Done! And about time....

• 2008 Scouting Report Updates: Fort Wayne & Dayton. The MWL two teams most likely to have entirely new rosters by season's end.

• We have a No Hitter! Kane County's Craig Italiano, with help from Branden Dewing. One baserunner; a hit-by-pitch.
• 2008 Scouting Report Updates: Kane County & Peoria. West Division's done!

• 2008 Scouting Report Updates: Beloit & Wisconsin.

• 2008 Scouting Report Updates: Quad Cities & Burlington. (Iowa's done!)
• A Roster a Weekday: New York Yankees. Done! Now I need to regroup--and clean up some data problems--before making a second pass at this project. May first is a good guess for Phase II to begin; October first for Phase III.

• Doesn't look like I'll be updating any scouting reports today; things are pretty busy. I'll get back to that tomorrow. My apologies.
• A Roster a Weekday: Chicago White Sox.

• 2008 Updates: Clinton & Cedar Rapids.
• A Roster a Weekday: Minnesota Twins.

• 2008 Updates: Lansing & South Bend. As usual, I begin with the matchup I expect to see next.
• A Roster a Weekday: Detroit Tigers. This is the first roster which includes all known coaches. The coaching information still needs some cleaning up, but we're gaining....

• Fixed a typo on Eddie Rodriguez' page.
• The 2008 Umpire Page is now available; I also did some work on the 2007 Umpire Listing more or less incidentally to this.
• The page summarizing 2008 Team Age information is complete.

• I've added team age information to the 2008 team pages. I'll get the summary page of that data up over the weekend.
• A Roster a Weekday: Kansas City Royals.

• More manager page updates, including Rick Sweet.
• A Roster a Weekday: Boston Red Sox.

• A Roster a Weekday: Cincinnati Reds.

• Manager updates. Mostly just the new assignments, but special attention for Jody Davis and Julio Garcia.
• A Roster a Weekday: Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays. Just two years, and I was a BC season ticket holder, so this one's pretty much done.