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Apr 4, 2024
Texarkana Rhinos Team Name Announcement

Earlier this week, the Texarkana Mid America League baseball team leadership announced the team’s name to be the Texarkana Rhinos. Here are several news articles about this announcement:

This video from the Texarkana Gazette YouTube channel shows more from this week’s team name announcement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tNCDN0Dr8s
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Mar 31, 2024
Mid America League Uses Omni Commerce Services and Payment Acceptance Solutions

Recent e-commerce and payment solutions news about the Mid America League appeared on Yahoo Finance:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/olb-group-adds-seven-additional-120000981.html

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Mar 31, 2024
Texarkana Team Name Next Week

According to the Texarkana Gazette:

Texarkana Sports and Entertainment LLC is organizing a press conference at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at the Texarkana Convention Center, 2910 Cowhorn Creek Loop, to unveil the team’s name and logo for the upcoming 2024 season.

https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2024/mar/28/texarkanas-new-mid-america-league-franchise/

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Mar 31, 2024
Steve Maddock Named Fort Smith Marshals Manager

Recently, the Fort Smith Marshals named Steve Maddock to be the team’s first field manager:

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2024/mar/24/fort-smith-marshals-introduce-maddock-as-manager/

Here are his playing and managing statistics in professional baseball:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=maddoc001ste

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Mar 19, 2024
Video About Joplin Outlaws Joining The Mid America League

This video from KOAM’s YouTube channel covers the Joplin Outlaws joining the Mid America League:

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Mar 19, 2024
Mention In Texas Monthly

The Mid America League received a brief mention in Texas Monthly this week:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/the-texanist-do-rural-texans-still-love-local-baseball/

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Mar 6, 2024
Fort Smith Marshals Schedule Announced

The Fort Smith Marshals announced their 2024 season schedule this week. You may see the official schedule on the team’s website at this link:

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The announcement also was made on these websites:

The Marshals will start the season at home on May 23, 2024 against Texarkana.

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Mar 6, 2024
Texarkana Added To Mid America League

Toward the end of February 2024, the Mid America League announced that Texarkana will be added to the 2024 set of teams. Here are some recent news announcements about Texarkana being named as a new market:

More information can be found on the Texarkana page on this website or on the official league website page for the team:

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Jan 21, 2024
White Oak Piney Woods Ribbon Cutting

Last week the new Piney Woods baseball team had a ribbon cutting at the field in White Oak, Texas. Here is a link recapping the event:

https://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/cnhi_network/white-oak-welcomes-mid-america-league/article_cb69d695-2b3d-5ec0-ac1c-04dc5a5a81a7.html

Team President David Upchurch and former Texas Rangers’ player Matt Perisho (the team’s field manager) were quoted in the article.

Learn more about the Piney Woods team here:

Piney Woods – White Oak
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Jan 21, 2024
New Fort Smith Team Name Announcement

Earlier this week the new Fort Smith team was formally named the Fort Smith Marshals. Here are videos from the press conference announcing the team name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al4IuLdpCQ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNboWQjVYH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTOPmRS0Ubs

You may learn more about the team name and the team here:

Fort Smith Marshals
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