Good news from the Altobellis. Former Illini 3B Dominic Altobelli, who has been playing in extended spring training so far this year, has been promoted to the Tri-City Dust Devils, a single-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. He’ll be moving up in more ways than one. Dom will be leaving…
The Illini are back from their Spring Break and ready to play up here in the north. Fortunately, the weather is going to cooperate… at least for this week. On Tuesday, Illinois will take on Illinois State University at their place in Normal. ISU is a member of the Missouri…
This isn’t showing up on the official roster yet but Northwest Indiana Times reports that former Illinois pitcher Drew Dickinson has been signed by the Gary Southshore Railcats. The Railcats are in the independent Northern League. Dickinson came over from the Schaumburg Flyers to help complete a trade. Indeed, only…
Good news for former Illini firstbaseman Mike Rohde. The Gary Southshore Railcats have signed him for the 2010 season. Rohde, who was the league’s 2008 Rookie of the Year, moved to thirdbase last year. And go figure, Rohde got a blogging gig for the Northwest Indiana Times last summer. If…
Catching up on some long overdue news regarding Illini players who’ve gone on to the wild blue yonder otherwise known as the minor leagues: Scott Shaw, who was drafted by the New York Mets in the 2008 draft, had a pretty awesome 2009 for the Port St Lucie Mets. Shaw…
This is a digital replica of former Illini Dominic Altobelli’s official baseball card this year when he played for the Casper Ghosts. His father Mike, who sent me the card, is very positive about how Dom’s first season progressed saying that he began “driving some balls toward the end of…
There’s a first time for everything and no one knows that more than former Illini infielder Shawn Roof. Last night in the very last game of the Erie Seawolves’ regular season, Roof hit his very first home run in professional and college play. His homerun came against the Akron Aeros…
Mike Altobelli sends this photo along of his son Dominic Altobelli. Dom, a former Illini thirdbaseman who was picked this year’s MLB draft has been playing for the Casper (Wyo.) Ghosts all year. The Ghosts are an Advanced Rookie affiliate of the Rockies in the Pioneer League. Dom’s parents took…
Mlive.com has a good piece on Casey Crosby. For those Illini fans who tried to forget, Crosby was the Illini baseball recruit who got drafted in the fifth round in 2007 and took the money and ran. Not that blame him… it was a whopping $750,000 signing bonus that lured…
Former UI catcher Chris Robinson will be at Wrigley Field tomorrow. His AAA Iowa Cubs will be taking on the Las Vegas 51s 1:20pm Sunday in Chicago as a special promotion. Iowa (56-57) and Las Vegas (57-57) have almost identical won-loss records so it should be an excellent game. Robinson…