Sanford River Rats

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The Sanford River Rats are a Summer Collegiate Baseball team playing in the Florida Collegiate Summer League, recognized by Baseball America as being one of the top Summer Collegiate leagues in the United States. The River Rats play their home games at Sanford Memorial Stadium in Sanford, FL, former spring training home of the New York Giants. Like every other Summer Collegiate Baseball organization, the River Rats are dedicated and designed to provide minor league-style competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball. The Sanford River Rats operate in the model of an Independent Minor League team: recruiting players, playing nightly before fans in stadiums which seat thousands, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment, and experiencing road trips between games. River Rats 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.