Brainerd Blue Thunder

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Location: Brainerd, MN
League: Northwoods League
Stadium: Stewart C. Mills Field

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The second Northwoods League team to make their home in Brainerd, MN, the Brainerd Blue Thunder, who played their inaugural seaon in 2005, fill the gap left by the departure of the Brainerd Mighty Gulls following the 2003 season.

The Blue Thunder are a Summer Collegiate Baseball which is dedicated and designed to provide minor league level competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball. The Brainerd Blue Thunder operate in the model a Minor League team: playing nightly before fans in stadiums which seat thousands, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment, and experiencing road trips between games. The Brainerd Blue Thunder actively recruit, and have hosted some of the premier collegiate athletes from throughout the United States and Canada. Like all other summer collegiate players, the Blue Thunder 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.