Norwich The City Council late Monday approved a new lease for the Thomas J. Dodd Stadium with the Norwich Sea Unicorns, which will start their new life as a summer wooden-bat collegiate team with their first home game May 31.
The aldermen expressed hesitancy at the turn of events that cost the city its minor league baseball team with a Major League Baseball affiliation but said approving a two-year lease with a third-year option “by mutual agreement” was the best option for the city. They questioned the financial viability of the summer collegiate team status and said the short-term agreement would allow the city to keep options open, including the possibility of selling the city-owned property in the Norwich business park for development.
Cityside: Cheer on some bright and eager hopefuls
By Bill Kenny
By now, you ve read, or should have, that the Norwich Sea Unicorns, undefeated since changing their name from the Connecticut Tigers will be joining the eight-team Futures Collegiate Baseball League, the FCBL. Think YMCA but with different gyrations and contortions (I can see the Sea Unicorn mascot dancing on the dugout roof during the mid-inning break now).
The FCBL is a wooden bat league (which is the way the Good Lord intended baseball to be played). FCBL ballplayers are unpaid collegiate athletes who hope to gain experience and exposure to Major League Baseball scouts. The Sea Unicorns home opener at Dodd Stadium is 7 p.m. on Memorial Day.
Seating signs and banners, player guides and rulebooks, scarves, hats, pint glasses, baseball bats and bobble heads were among the items for sale Saturday
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