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7/2/9: Goldpanners escape jams for victory over Miners A diving catch and a bizarre play helped the Alaska Goldpanners clinch a 2-1 win Wednesday over the Mat-Su Miners

6/30/9: ESPN: San Diego Chicken Deserves Hall Call "My guy? Ted Giannoulas, aka the San Diego Chicken.

"They've got a players' wing [in the Hall of Fame]," Giannoulas said. "They've got a broadcasters' wing. And I hope one day they'll have a chicken wing."

6/29/9: Panners knock off Bucs for third straight ABL victory The Goldpanners scored two runs in the second inning to take a 2-1 lead, and never trailed after that. They added a run in the third, two more in the four, another in the sixth and a pair in the seventh.

2009 Pictures - Page Two

6/28/9: Panners sweep Fire for first ABL wins

Thank you Jarod!  10 RBI in 11 Games  Good luck in 2010

Jarod Berggren Hitting Statistics
avg  gs ab  2b  3b  hr  rbi  tb  slg% bb  hbp  so  ob% fld% 
.325  11- 40 13  1  1  10  21  .525  10  .426  1.000 

 

6/26/9: All you ever wanted to know about Tom Seaver in Fairbanks ("The reincarnation of Christy Mathewson") "The impossible seemed to have occurred. Seaver’s 11-2 record at Fresno City College earned the recruiting attention of Rod Dedeaux. He was a legitimate fastball artist. Dedeaux called him the “phee-nom from San Joaquin.”  But Dedeaux needed to know for sure that he could compete for the Trojans. “I only have five scholarships to give out,” the coach told him. Before the ride would be offered, Seaver would have to prove himself with the Fairbanks, Alaska Goldpanners.

Today, collegiate summer baseball is a well-known commodity. Many scouts place more credence on a player’s performance in one of these leagues than they do on their college seasons. The Cape Cod League uses only wooden bats, which proves to be a great equalizer for pitchers and a shock for aluminum-bat sluggers who find themselves batting .250 on the Cape. Summer ball has a long tradition in Canada, where American collegians test themselves in such exotic locales as Red Deer, Alberta, Calgary and Edmonton. The Kamloops International Tournament in British Columbia has attracted some of the fastest baseball for decades. The Jayhawk League, consisting of teams from Boulder, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, plus Kansas and Iowa, was once a leading destination for college players. The California Collegiate Summer League, consisting of teams from the Humboldt Crabs in the north to the San Diego Aztecs in the south, has produced many stars in its various forms over the years.

But the Alaskan Summer Collegiate League is the most legendary. Over time, the league became the Alaska-Hawaii League, with teams flying in for extended road trips on the islands and the “land of the midnight sun.”

“The team was put together by a man named Red Boucher,” said former Met pitcher Danny Frisella, who was a teammate of Seaver’s in Fairbanks. Boucher was the Mayor of Fairbanks. “He got all the best young ball players up there.” Andy Messersmith of the University of California became a 20-game winner with the California Angels. Mike Paul pitched for Cleveland. Graig Nettles played for Minnesota. USC quarterback Steve Sogge, a baseball catcher, played on that team. Rick Monday was an All-American at Arizona State, where he was a teammate of Reggie Jackson and Sal Bando in a program that captured the 1965 National Championship (also producing Mets’ pitcher Gary Gentry). In the very first amateur draft ever held in 1965, Monday became the first player chosen, by the Kansas City A’s.

“Monday was there the year I was and he couldn’t even make our team,” said Frisella. “I think 13 guys were signed off that team. It was semi-pro ball, and we played eight games a week. We didn’t get paid. Not for playing ball. But I earned $650 a month for pulling a lever on a dump truck. And I didn’t have to pull the lever too often.”

New Panner Pages! Bret Lachemann • Stuart Burnett • Bobby Davis • Brennan Gowens • Mike McCarthy • Ryan McIntyre • Martin Medina • Zach Peek • Andrew Pollak • Justin Schafer • Derek Wilson

2009 Picture Page

Andrew Pollak - Double, 2 RBI in First Panner AB

Emerson Frostad (03) is batting .369 in June (24-for-65) with 6 doubles, a triple, homer and 10 RBIs.

Bill "Spaceman" Lee (66-67-08) He Came From His Vermont Farm "Lee was asked on Sunday how effective he remained at his advanced baseball age. And, no surprise, he hesitated not at all.

"Let's put it this way," Lee answered. "On June 21st of last year, I won the 103rd Midnight Sun Game in Fairbanks, Ala., after losing the 62nd Midnight Sun Game in Fairbanks, Ala., on June 21st in 1967. So, 41 years, three wives, four children and five grandchildren later, I go back and beat the kids who are supposed to be the next generation of big-league ballplayers. As Casey Stengel said, you can look it up."

I did, and it was true. Before a roaring crowed of 4,900, Lee went six-plus innings, allowing four runs on seven hits while striking out three to earn the win in the Alaska Goldpanners' 10-6 victory over the Southern California Running Birds. And never mind, as he said, that those young Birds could have caught his fastball with their teeth.

You see, he won. And he won the old-fashioned way."

 

SEAN TIMMONS GETS MSG SAVE TO GO WITH THREE WINS!


Game Ends on Called Third Strike by Timmons

Sean Timmons Pitching Statistics

YEAR ERAGGSCGWLSvIPHRERBBSO
1994 9.00 4 0 0 0 0 0 3.0 5 5 3 5 0
1998 3.00 8 2 1 3 0 0 27.0 24 11 9 4 19
1999 3.38 11 3 1 2 2 1 40.0 32 17 15 15 33
2000 4.42 9 4 1 1 2 0 38.2 47 28 19 6 25
2001 3.86 8 8 1 2 3 0 58.2 71 33 25 14 44
2002 1.70 10 9 2 8 0 0 68.2 60 19 13 12 51
2003 1.44 11 11 3 6 2 0 81.1 68 15 13 19 55
2004 3.59 8 8 2 5 1 0 52.2 60 23 22 10 28
2005 1.50 2 1 0 1 00 6.0 4 1 1 1 8
2006 1.17 6 6 2 5 0 0 46.0 40 12 6 10 20
2007 12.27 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 8 5 5 1 2
2008 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
2009* 1.50 2 1 0 1 0 1 6.0 3 1 1 0 9
TOTALS* 2.74 92 53 13 3410 2 432.2 423158 132 97 295

* Through 2009 Midnight Sun Game

 

2009 Picture Page

Touching the Game: Alaska
Aaron Torres

Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks head coach Tim Gloyd announced Wednesday that Sacramento State pitcher Jesse Darrah will take the mound Sunday night, when the Goldpanners host the Lake Erie Monarchs in the 104th edition of the Midnight Sun Game.

The game is set for a 10:30 p.m. Fairbanks start time, and- as it has for the past century - will be played without the use of any artificial light.  The date of June 21st has been chosen annually as it is the summer solstice, and the day of the year with the most sunlight.

H.A. (Red) Boucher
1921-2009


Film Details Red Boucher's Involvement in Alaskan Baseball

As one Goldpanners player left the theater, he looked at another, both still in uniform, and said, “That was like my story.”

Boucher's Vision Changed Baseball in Alaska - “We had a remarkable relationship from the moment I met him in 1964,” Dennis said. “He was one of those guys that when you met him you knew you would never forget him. There are so few who genuinely stand out that way.”

His family said Boucher earned his lifelong nickname after President Franklin Roosevelt met the red-haired boy and said, “They ought to call you Red.” The family said he ended up in Alaska after campaigning for a young senator from Massachusetts by the name of John F. Kennedy, who told him there was great potential in the far north territory.

Former Fairbanks mayor, Goldpanners founder 'Red' Boucher dies at 88

FILM KICKS OFF MIDNIGHT SUN GAME FESTIVITIES
 


ANCHORAGE PLANS A SOLSTICE BALLGAME


 ..Pic from 6/20/9...lights on in Anchorage from the beginning...

"It took Anchorage more than a century to catch on, but this weekend the city will take a page from its neighbor to the north and host a late-night, summer solstice baseball game -- 103 years after Fairbanks first tried it."

"Unlike the Midnight Sun game in Fairbanks -- which has gained considerable national and even worldwide attention -- the Pilots won't go into the game with a strict lights-out policy."
 

MIDNIGHT SUN GAME IN THE NEWS

6/18/9: Dan Pastorini: A Message from Dan Pastorini - 2009 Alumni Inductee
6/18/9: Controversy arises at second base in Goldpanners loss

2009 Goldpanners Yearbook
(large pdf file)

6/17/9: Evan Simonitsch - by Aaron Torres
6/17/9:
Alaska Goldpanners rout Fairbanks Adult All-Stars - Three Alaska Goldpanners pitchers combined on a two-hitter to pave the way for a 17-0 win over the Fairbanks Adult All-Stars in Tuesday night’s exhibition baseball game at Growden Memorial Park.

2009 Picture Page

Heroes of the Game : Derrick Chung (HR) ; Sean Timmons (W#34)

6/14/9: Film Crew Captures Essence of Midnight Sun Four Massachusetts filmmakers spent two years following the teams in the Alaska League. They sent me an advance copy of the DVD, and it is about as in-depth a look at the world of Alaska baseball that we might ever see.

6/12/9: Dakota Watts (07) Oroville alum Watts drafted by Twins

2009 Picture Page

6/11/9: Shorthanded Goldpanners Open ABL Season “Whether we’re ready or not, we’re going to put a team on the field,” Dennis said with a chuckle earlier this week. Usually the Panners open the season with a series of exhibition games against teams from Outside, then begin the ABL season. Since the ABL expanded from 35 to 45 league games this season, the exhibition games are intermingled with the regular season action."

2009 Pre-Season Rostered Players in Draft

1st Round, Comp., 48th pick -- Tyler Kehrer (LAD)
3rd Round, 96th - Brett Wallach, (LAD)
No. 477 Ryan Cavan, Giants
No. 486 Ryan Robowski, Diamondbacks

Panner Alumni in Draft

No. 286 Jon Pokorny (08), Brewers
No. 428: Seqouyah Stonecipher (07), Marlins
No. 486 Ryan Robowski (08-09R), Diamondbacks
No. 492 Dakota Watts (07), Twins
No. 531 Jeremy Gillan (08), Angels
No. 564 Chris Tremblay (07 MVP), Padres
No. 571 Dustin Garneau (08), Rockies
No. 826 Ryan Platt (07), Milwaukee
No. 861 Carson Andrew (07)

6/9/09 FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER / 25 YEARS AGO

June 9, 1984 — They’ve all played here before.

In 24 years, the likes of Dave Winfield, Craig Nettles, Tom Seaver, Tim Wallach and Steve Kemp have graced the hallowed walls of Growden Memorial Park in the baseball uniforms of the Alaska Goldpanners.

Now, it’s the Page Odles, the Kevin Basts, the Troy Evers et al who are the new boys of summer.

Tonight, the 25th edition of Fairbanks’ non-professional baseball club, the Goldpanners, renews its annual romance with the Golden Heart City.


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