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Batting practice coming to MGM Park in October

Minor League Baseball took one of the hardest hits from the coronavirus pandemic, having to cancel its 2020 season entirely as a result. But the Biloxi Shuckers keep making the most out of a bad situation. Perhaps a once in…

Ocean Springs alum Garrett Crochet called up by White Sox

The longest career in minor league baseball history belongs to Hattiesburg native John Lindsey who spent 16 years in various farm systems before finally making his Big League debut in 2010 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. By contrast another player…

Former Biloxi Shucker Corbin Burnes throws daytime gem

In the relatively short history of the Biloxi Shuckers perhaps no one made it look easier on the mound against AA hitting than Corbin Burnes. After a rough 2019 season in which the former fourth round pick boasted an ERA…

Barry Lyons Fall Wooden Bat League

Attention all high school baseball players, the Barry Lyons Baseball Fall Wooden Bat League is back again for a 15th year, open to grades nine through 12. The rosters will be capped at 48 players total, divided up into four…

Louisiana Knights looking for more players

The spring baseball season may have been cut short, but fall ball is right around the corner. As summer tournaments at MGM Park wrap up, Louisiana Knights baseball is now hoping to expand its program here on the Mississippi Gulf…

Deep South Collegiate League Championship

The first time we got a glimpse of former Southern Miss pitcher Kirk McCarty as a manager he was a half-inning away from having to decide a tie-game with ‘rock, paper, scissors.’ The Deep South Collegiate League has come a…

Deep South Summer Collegiate League

In the midst of a global pandemic, the Deep South Summer Collegiate League has gone off without a hitch. Already six weeks into the inaugural campaign on the final day of the regular season. Team Crim hosting Team Larson and…

Gulfport’s Cade Crosby officially a Golden Eagle

Cade Crosby said, "I know a lot of kids, football, baseball, every sport really, not being able to go to the school that they wanted to or a school that they've been at and just having to go to another…

Gulfport’s Cade Crosby officially a Golden Eagle

Cade Crosby said, "I know a lot of kids, football, baseball, every sport really, not being able to go to the school that they wanted to or a school that they've been at and just having to go to another…

Gulfport Baseball: Cade Crosby commits to Southern Miss

From 2016 Conference USA Tournament MVP Daniel Keating to 2020 team captain Alex Nelms, the Gulfport pipeline through the Southern Miss baseball program runs strong and it just got stronger. On Sunday, recent Gulfport graduate Cade Crosby made his verbal…

Gulfport Baseball: Cade Crosby commits to Southern Miss

From 2016 Conference USA Tournament MVP Daniel Keating to 2020 team captain Alex Nelms, the Gulfport pipeline through the Southern Miss baseball program runs strong and it just got stronger. On Sunday, recent Gulfport graduate Cade Crosby made his verbal…

USM Alum Brian Dozier cut by San Diego Padres

On Saturday, the San Diego Padres released Southern Miss alum Brian Dozier just five months after signing the former All-Star to a minor league contract back in February. The 33-year-old Dozier would have made $2.2 million had he made the…

Biloxi Shuckers on hold until 2021

While the Major League Baseball season is now just two weeks away, the return of Minor League Baseball is no longer in the year 2020. On the last day of June, the MLB pulled the plug on the entire 2020…

Matthew Guidry bids farewell to Southern Miss baseball

When the NCAA granted eligibility relief to spring sport athletes, it left players like Southern Miss second baseman Matthew Guidry with a lot to think about. Because even though life may be kind enough to give us a second chance,…

Major League Baseball is officially back

When it comes to the good, the bad, and the ugly, it’s been almost all ugly for Major League Baseball ever since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Negotiations that were seemingly going nowhere and then out of nowhere comes…

Louisiana Knights at MGM Park “Perfect Marriage”

Just because the Biloxi Shuckers haven’t played a game in 2020 doesn’t mean MGM Park isn’t going to good use. Friday’s slate of games kicked off the Louisiana Knights’ third weekend at the home of the Shuckers where there are…

MLB labor dispute continues

The labor dispute between the MLB owners and the Players Association is starting to get ugly and yet baseball appears to still be on the table for the 2020 season. As first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the union fired…