Asheboro Copperheads

From BR Bullpen

Location: Asheboro, NC
League: Coastal Plain League
Stadium: McCrary Park

1 Team Bio
2 2007 On-Field Staff
3 Copperheads Alumni in Major League Baseball
4 Copperheads Alumni in MLB Affiliated Baseball
5 Championships and Honors
6 Related Links

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The Asheboro Copperheads are a Summer Collegiate Baseball team playing in the Coastal Plain League. The Copperheads play their home games at McCrary Park in Asheboro, NC. Founded in 1999, the Copperheads won their division in only their second year, finishing with a 15-7 record. The Copperheads have since invested in actively recruiting players, hosting athletes from throughout the United States and earned their way into the playoffs again in 2004 and hosting the Pettit Cup Championship tournament in 2006.

The Asheboro Copperheads are like every other summer college baseball team, in that they are dedicated and designed to provide minor league-style competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball. The Copperheads operate in the model of an Independent Minor League team: recruiting athletes, playing nightly before fans in stadiums which seat thousands, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment and experiencing road trips between games. Like all other summer collegiate players, Asheboro Copperheads athletes are unpaid in order to maintain their NCAA eligibility, and live with host families in the same manner as Single A and Independent League players.