Duluth Huskies

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Location: Duluth, MN
League: Northwoods League
Stadium: Wade Stadium

1 Team Bio
2 2007 On-Field Staff
3 Huskies Drafted in MLB Affiliated Baseball and 2006?2007? team
4 Related Links

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Founded in 2003 as an expansion team to the Northwoods League, the Duluth Huskies are a Summer Collegiate Baseball based out of LaCrosse, WI. The Huskies play their home games in Wade Stadium, a municipally-owned field built in 1938 for the Duluth Dukes with funds from the city selling off the unemployment bonds which were designed to ease the burden of the Great Depression on the town. The Huskies are one of several Northwoods League teams loosely affiliated with the Minnesota Twins who help with the organizational needs of the team.

The Duluth Huskies have hosted collegiate athletes from throughout the United States and Canada. Like all Summer Collegiate teams, they are dedicated and designed to provide minor league level competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball. The Huskies 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. Like all other summer collegiate players, the Huskies 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.