Frontier League Meetings filled with Local Intrigue, Where will Joliet Land?

While some stories had pointed to a decision in the middle of this week on the fate of the dozen or so teams without more than a four-team league in which to operate next season and the Golden League had projected an announcement for today (Thursday), I cannot help but believe Monday?s Frontier League ownership meeting outside of Chicago (Orland Park) may hold much of the key.

That conclusion comes about since the four remaining Northern League teams have applied to the Frontier to join the 12-team Midwestern circuit and one of them, Joliet, IL, seems totally determined that is the league where it wants the JackHammers to land.� The Herald News is reporting a group of investors, including current minority stockholder Alan Oremus, has reached a tentative agreement to buy the cash-strapped Joliet team.� ?We?re all still very positive,? City Manager Thomas Thanas told the newspaper.� Thanas and Councilman Thomas Giarrante, who bluntly told The Herald News ?we want to be in the Frontier League?, plan to be on site to lobby for admission to the 18-year-old league.

Joliet?s destination could hold at least part of the key to the widely-rumored plan for the Northern League teams plus the remains of the Golden and United Leagues to form what is being called the North American League.� If formed, the NAL could have a dozen or more teams in three divisions with most of the games in the division with the [More …]

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