Connecticut baseball includes collegiate and professional minor leagues

The New England Collegiate Baseball League is summer college baseball at its best. Seeing a college baseball game is an evening of great summertime fun for children and families during a New England vacation. The league, consisting of 12 teams in the six New England states, starts its summer season in early June and plays an eight-week schedule of 42 games per team. The league championship is determined by a playoff in early August.

Connecticut’s professional minor leagues include the New Britain Rock Cats, a AA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins based in New Britain, and the Connecticut Defenders, a AA affiliate of the San Francisco Giants based in Norwich.

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Bridgeport Bluefish

The Ballpark at Harbor Yard, 500 Main Street Bridgeport, CT Phone: 203-345-4800

Member of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball

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Tickets range from $8 - $20 dollars. Home games are typically held at 7:05 p.m.
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New Britain Rock Cats

New Britain Stadium, Willow Brook Park, 599 South Main Street New Britain, CT Phone: 860-224-8383

Double-A Affiliate of the Minnesota Twins

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Stadium Parking: The parking operation includes the main Willow Brook Park Lot, several New Britain High School lots, and on occasion additional South Main Street lots. Standard parking fees are $3 per car, and a limited number of $5 premium spaces are sold. Questions: 860-826-3360.
Broadcast: The Rock Cats Radio Network led by Jeff Dooley can be heard throughout all of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. Game highlights, interviews, sound clips, and game stories can be heard on WTIC-FM 96.5 HD2 and WMRD-AM 1150 in Middletown and New Britain and on WTIC NewsTalk 1080 and WLIS-AM 1420 in Old Saybrook. WTIC NewsTalk 1080 will broadcast 10 Rock Cats games during the 2010 season. Listen all summer long on RockCats.com Radio or www.wtic.com.
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Danbury Westerners

Rogers Park, Memorial Drive Danbury, CT 06810 Phone: 203-797-0897

New England Collegiate Baseball League

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Game times: Games start at 7 p.m. unless otherwise indicated. Other game starting times may be 1, 3, 5, 6, 6:30, and 6:35 p.m. Consult team schedules are team websites.
Local radio coverage: WLAD 800AM. Internet coverage: Games are broadcast via Teamline . Fans can view the live video webcast of an entire game via the Internet for $15; listen to to live audio webcast of the games for fee; or listen to a live play-by-play from any telephone for $5 per game.
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Connecticut Tigers

Dodd Stadium, 14 Stott Avenue Norwich, CT 06360

Double-A Affiliate of the San Francisco Giants

The Connecticut Tigers moved to Norwich in 2010. They are members of the New York-Penn League, and a single-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. They were previously known as the Oneonta (New York) Tigers. The Connecticut Defenders, the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, formerly based in Norwich, moved to Richmond, Virginia, and are now known as the Richmond Flying Squirrels.
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Broadcast: Gameday Audio

Mystic Schooners

Fitch High School, 101 Groton Long Point Road Groton, CT Phone: 860-558-6870

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News coverage in The Day and The Norwich Bulletin