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The Fort Wayne Diamondbacks are an amateur baseball program designed to develop youth baseball players.  In addition to development, the Fort Wayne Diamondbacks strive to help supplement college/ university placement for all of their graduating players (high school graduates).  The Fort Wayne Diamondbacks also create an environment which continues to lead both our graduating and former players to professional baseball careers. 

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The Indiana  Chargers  were established in 2008 in the  Elkhart, IN. The program grabbed the attention of high level baseball talent out of the Elkhart area from 2008-2018.  

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Fort Wayne billionaire joins Eleven Park investor group for new stadium and MLS team

A northern Indiana billionaire is throwing his support behind Indy Eleven's plan to build a Major League Soccer-eligible stadium at the planned Eleven Park mixed-use development in downtown Indianapolis.

Fort Wayne entrepreneur Chuck Surack has joined the effort as a co-owner in the Indy Eleven team and an investor in the private development, officials with Indy Eleven and Eleven Park Investment Group announced today.

The announcement is the latest salvo in an increasingly contentious duel to land a MLS franchise and construct a new downtown stadium. In one corner is Mayor Joe Hogsett's administration and an ownership group led by a sports executive with experience in MLS and global soccer. In the other corner is Indy Eleven, real estate developer Keystone Group and their founder Ersal Ozdemir, who spent years lobbying for legislation that would help with funding to make a soccer-specific stadium possible in Indianapolis.

The city was engaged in negotiations with Keystone Group and Indy Eleven about the financing of Eleven Park's stadium but those talks ended in March. City officials told IndyStar that today's announcement does not change anything.

Surack founded Sweetwater Sound, an online retailer for musical instruments and recording equipment, in 1979 and operated it for several decades. The company started as a mobile recording studio. Surack sold a majority stake in the company to a Rhode Island private equity firm in 2021, though he continues to serve as chairman of the e-commerce company.

"It is clear to me that Indy Eleven and Eleven Park represent an unprecedented opportunity for downtown Indianapolis to finally embrace the kind of riverfront development that is transforming Fort Wayne and other cities across the country,” Surack said in a news release.

In the statement, Surack says he's committed to investing his resources with like-minded people to support Indiana's growth.

“The strong foundation of community and fan support, coupled with the incredible chance to transcend sports through neighborhood redevelopment, is why I am joining this prominent group of business leaders from across the state," he said.

Surack joins Ozdemir in financially backing the project. Other investors include Ricker family, Salin family, Traylor family, Hageman family, Heritage Group director Jeff Laborsky, Fred Merritt with LFM Investments, IU Health Fort Wayne President Brian Bauer, and Speedring Capital founder Don Gottwald.

Ozdemir said Surack shares the group's vision in having a stadium at Eleven Park. “The addition of a Hoosier billionaire to an already strong Indy Eleven ownership group further solidifies our Indiana ownership group to bring MLS and the transformational riverfront development, Eleven Park, to Indianapolis," Ozdemir said in the press release.

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Late last month, Mayor Joe Hogsett announced that he is leading a separate effort to bring a MLS team to Indianapolis and build a new soccer-specific stadium downtown.

The pursuit is independent of Indy Eleven's and Keystone Group's planned Eleven Park project that includes a 20,000-seat MLS-eligible stadium in addition to apartments, office, retail, parking and greenspace off Kentucky Avenue on the banks of White River. Hogsett's announcement cast uncertainty on the future of Eleven Park as city officials said the stadium project was not financially viable.

Keystone and Indy Eleven — both founded by Ersal Ozdemir — broke ground on Eleven Park in May 2023 with the aim of building an MLS-eligible stadium that would also be the home of the Indy Eleven minor league soccer team. The city council and Metropolitan Development Commission approved a professional sports development area for the Eleven Park stadium last year.

However, Keystone accused the Hogsett administration of walking away from the project, refusing to submit the PSDA plan and map to the State Budget Committee for consideration and shopping the legislation that Ozdemir spent years lobbying for to make a soccer-specific stadium possible in Indianapolis.

The mayor's office has already identified a potential alternative location for a stadium at 355 E. Pearl St. — near the Indianapolis Downtown Heliport. Surack has spoken out against the decommissioning of heliport.

The city has started the process of getting a new PSDA approved for that site with the aim of submitting it to the state for consideration this summer. In the city's pursuit of an MLS expansion team, a new investment group reportedly led by ex-Chelsea executive Tom Glick is forming to help pay the team's franchise fee.

Contact IndyStar investigative reporter Alexandria Burris at  [email protected] . Follow her on X, formerly Twitter, at  @allyburris .

This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Indy Eleven soccer: Fort Wayne billionaire joins stadium plans

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After a multi-season hiatus, Crooked Numbers returns with a heaping portion of Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. This edition, covering the start of the season through the end of April, has a disproportionate number of items from the Triple-A level. As for why that is, who knows? Maybe

After a multi-season hiatus, Crooked Numbers returns with a heaping portion of Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. This edition, covering the start of the season through the end of April, has a disproportionate number of items from the Triple-A level. As for why that is, who knows? Maybe things were just weirder at the Minors’ highest level. Or maybe this writer, rusty after taking a couple years off from writing this column, needs to dig deeper.

Let me know what I missed ( [email protected] ), because keeping track of this type of thing is a team effort.

Mr. March The Triple-A season expanded to 150 games in 2023, resulting in a novel occurrence: regular season Minor League Baseball games in March. On Opening Day 2023, March 31 , Worcester left fielder Greg Allen hit a fourth-inning home run. This year, now playing for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, Allen topped that by hitting a home run in the first at-bat of the entire Minor League season. That leadoff dinger on March 29, which opened a matinee in Buffalo , was the only home run Allen had until he knocked No. 2 on May 4. Over the entirety of the 2023 season, he hit four -- one in the Major Leagues and three in the Minors.

In the first at-bat of the Minor League season, Greg Allen launches one for the @swbrailriders ! pic.twitter.com/1TVtqMEJrB — Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) March 29, 2024

Making the most of it On Opening Night, Rodolfo Castro blasted a three-run, walk-off grand slam for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. It only counted for three runs because his teammate Matt Kroon, who had drawn a bases loaded walk to tie the game 4-4, got caught up in celebrating and never scored. (He was ultimately ruled out at second). This remains Castro’s only hit of the season, as he went on the injured list five days later.

Piling it on On March 31, after eight innings of play, the Albuquerque Isotopes were clinging to a 9-8 lead over the visiting El Paso Chihuahuas. El Paso then scored eight runs in the top of the ninth, resulting in a 16-9 lead. Albuquerque mounted a furious two-out rally in the bottom of the ninth, even extending the game on a successful challenge of a called third strike. It wasn’t quite enough, however, as El Paso hung on for a 16-15 win . Fourteen of the game's 31 runs were scored in the ninth inning.

Upon further review, game over In the El Paso-Albuquerque game mentioned above, a game-ending strikeout was overturned after a challenge. In April 5’s game between Gwinnett and Louisville, we saw things go in the other direction . Behold:

Two-way player The first Sacramento River Cats player to earn two wins this season wasn’t a member of the pitching staff. That honor belongs to moonlighting infielder Donovan Walton, who picked up two wins over a three-day span, with the circumstances of each game being remarkably similar: a two-inning appearance to close out an extra-inning, 9-8 road win over the Reno Aces. On April 2 , Walton didn’t appear in the game until appearing on the mound in the 11th inning. On April 4 , he started at second base and hit a two-run homer before once again taking the mound, this time in the 10th. All told, he allowed just one unearned run over four innings, despite not having the most intimidating stuff:

Beware the Tides of April Scoring 11 runs in a game is good. Losing by 15 runs in a game is bad. The Charlotte Knights managed to accomplish both feats in the same game on April 2, falling to the rampaging Norfolk Tides by the highly anomalous score of 26-11 . Outfielder Kyle Stowers hit three home runs for the Tides en route to establishing a new franchise career record (44), and he wasn’t even the star of the game thanks to Heston Kjerstad’s two-homer, 10-RBI performance. Perhaps that should come with an asterisk, as Kjerstad was able to pad his stat line with an eighth-inning grand slam against position player Danny Mendick.

26 runs, 29 hits and 8 homers for the @NorfolkTides -- including 3 by Kyle Stowers. It was a night to remember for the @Orioles ' Triple-A affiliate: https://t.co/MI7WVELfp5 pic.twitter.com/9rJUJ8LnjP — Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) April 4, 2024

The Tides and the Knights weren’t done yet. Three days later, the Tides scored 10 runs in the first inning and then held on for dear life in an 11-10, 10-inning win. The losing pitcher in that game was, you guessed it, Danny Mendick. While Mendick has not fared well on the mound, note that until the White Sox placed him on the injured list over the weekend, he was thriving as a hitter. The 30-year-old veteran smashed eight home runs in his 60 at-bats in the Minors -- including a streak of five games in a row (April 16-20) in which he went yard -- and had three doubles and a homer over 10 games with Chicago before lower back tightness got the best of him.

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Rampaging Bulls in Lehigh Valley One week after the Norfolk Tides scored 26 runs in a game, the Durham Bulls did them two better. The Triple-A Tampa Bay affiliated destroyed Lehigh Valley, 28-10 , in a game in which every Bulls player collected at least two hits and scored at least two runs.

Much of the damage was done during an 11-run ninth inning, in which veteran utility man Esteban Quiroz allowed nine runs while recording one out. Quiroz now has a 243.00 ERA on the season, raising his career mark (four appearances) to 61.71.

Bad day at the office This month, when it came to allowing nine runs while recording a single out, Esteban Quiroz wasn’t alone. New Hampshire Fisher Cats right-hander Cornelius Johannes Van Eyk, better known as CJ, suffered this ignominious fate on April 28 . Van Eyk started the game, and the Binghamton Rumble Ponies greeted him thusly: single, home run, single, single, single, groundout, single, single, single, double. He was then pulled from the game with the score 7-0 and runners on second and third. Both of those runners scored before the inning mercifully came to a close.

When in Rome The Rome Braves changed their name to the Emperors this past offseason, and on March 29 they unveiled their new mascot: an emperor penguin named Julius. It didn’t take long for Julius, and the rebrand itself, to have an impact. On April 6, the first game in Emperors history, the Waddle was born .

Working overtime In his first inning of work this season, on April 5 , Caden Grice of the Visalia Rawhide struck out four batters (the third strikeout victim reached base safely on a wild pitch).

Striking out three batters in your 1st inning of 2024? Tired. Striking out FOUR batters in your 1st inning of 2024? Wired. Caden Grice starts his @VisaliaRawhide tenure off in dominant fashion. pic.twitter.com/RZv9xhG1py — Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) April 6, 2024

Not to be outdone, Grice’s teammate Jhosmer Alvarez recorded five strikeouts in an inning on April 23. He then struck out the first batter he faced the following frame, but that batter reached on a wild pitch. His final line: one inning of work, six strikeouts. Six of the 10 balls he threw in his 35-pitch outing were wild pitches.

Turtle power A sequence of events in which the winning run being thrown out at home directly leads to the winning run scoring? The Daytona Tortugas made it happen :

What's the most exciting way you can think of to walk off a game? The @daytonatortugas made their submission Wednesday night: https://t.co/VJizgzEpeb pic.twitter.com/mw1cp7oa8j — Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) April 25, 2024

Put a tarp on it; it's done Because all good things must come to an end, we leave you with this:

The streak is over. Tonight is El Paso's first postponed game since August 7, 2022. The @epchihuahuas played 220 straight games without a postponement! https://t.co/tzx4EODJCU — Tim Hagerty (@tdhagerty) April 25, 2024

Benjamin Hill is a reporter for MiLB.com and writes Ben's Biz Blog . Follow Ben on Twitter @bensbiz .

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Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner getting back into the game with meet and greet

“The Golden Bachelor” star Gerry Turner is back in the dating game.

The newlywed and newly single Turner will be in Fort Wayne in May for a Minor League Baseball event themed for romance.

During the Fort Wayne TinCaps Love and Roses Night May 17, the team will host a VIP experience with the 72-year-old reality TV star that includes a Q&A session.

The VIP ticket package , priced at $50, also includes a meet and greet with each guest getting a chance to take a photo with Turner — who lives in Hudson, Indiana — a Love and Roses wine glass and a ticket to the game.

That evening’s game against the South Bend Cubs will feature a Hometown Date Competition for 21-and-up singles during which five women and five men will compete in on-field promotions, such as the “Falling in Love Dizzy Bat” challenge. Based on their performances in the promotions, one woman and one man will be selected to watch that night’s postgame fireworks from the field and they’ll get a Fort Wayne date package. (The deadline to apply to be a contestant has passed.) 

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The team touts the event as a first of its kind promotion in Minor League Baseball.

Regular tickets start at $7 and can be purchased at tincaps.com , by calling 260-482-6400, and at the Parkview Field Ticket Office. 

'Parks and Rec,' 'Sandlot' actors also appearing at upcoming events

Turner isn’t the only celeb headed for the ballpark.

The TinCaps on July 5 will host an appearance by Jim O’Heir, who played Garry “Jerry” Gergich from NBC’s Indiana-set “ Parks and Recreation .” The $50 VIP ticket package includes a Q&A session, meet and greet, photo opp and a Jim O’Heir bobblehead.

Chauncey Leopardi, who played Squints in “The Sandlot," will be on hand for Baseball Movies Night Sept. 6, with a Q&A session, meet and greet and photos. VIP package guests will also receive Chauncey Leopardi bobbleheads. 

About Gerry Turner

Turner, a widowed retiree, gained instant fame with ABC’s July 2023 announcement that he would star on the first season of the hit senior dating show “The Golden Bachelor.”

Golden Bachelor no more: Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist get hitched.

He met and proposed to Theresa Nist, a 70-year-old financial services professional from New Jersey, on the show. They were married during at January 2024 ceremony broadcast live on ABC.

They never moved in together, and he filed for divorce three months later. 

Gerry Turner is single again: Golden Bachelor, Theresa Nist announce they're divorcing

In addition to promoting the show, Turner made the rounds at the USA Pickleball National Championships last fall; he and Nist partnered with Amazon ahead of their wedding; and in January he signed on for Hollywood representation .

The week of the “The Golden Bachelor” season finale,  The Hollywood Reporter   published a story anonymously quoting a woman who said she had been in a long-term relationship with Turner, whom the show had presented as having limited dating experience since the death of his first wife.

Contact IndyStar reporter Cheryl V. Jackson at [email protected] or 317-444-6264. Follow her on X:  @cherylvjackson .