As soon as the 2022 baseball season ended, it was clear that 2023 would be a year of big changes for the Sussex County Miners. Manager Bobby Jones was leaving. The former big league pitcher had been the face of the team...
In a different universe and if the stars had lined up differently, maybe Jorge Tavarez would be pitching today for the New York Yankees. Or maybe the New York Mets. Or the White Sox or the Twins or the Cardinals. Instead, he’s...
It was a seven-game winning streak to end the season that sent the Miners into the Frontier League playoffs. In particular, it was last week’s three-game sweep of the Tri-City ValleyCats on the road in Troy, N.Y., that lifted Sussex County from fifth place...
The great Yogi Berra was a World War II hero and maybe the best catcher in the history of baseball. He was born in St. Louis but spent most of his adult life in New Jersey. He sometimes spoke as a poet and sometimes spoke...
Vincent Sangemino arrived in Augusta in early March as the new general manager of the Sussex County Miners. Last week, he was the man behind one of the proudest moments in the history of Skylands Stadium. There have been other proud moments,...
Here we are, late in the season, the stretch run is fast approaching, and it all comes down to this… again: While the rest of the league can sit back and watch as spectators, this Route 80 four-game series in our own Garden State...
New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Police Participate in Battle of the Badges Softball Charity Game Hosted by Sussex County Miners Skylands Stadium will be holding the charity softball game in association with New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Police Augusta, NJ – July 31, 2023 – The Sussex County...
Nobody wants to hear another good news—bad news story, but sometimes there’s just no way around it. The Miners’ situation at this point in the season is just a textbook case. First, the negatives of the moment, beginning with the obvious that is found...
What could be better than a ballgame on the Fourth of July? A ballgame followed by fireworks, of course. But it’s even better this year at Skylands Stadium. This time, it will be a confrontation of in-state arch-rivals slugging it out for first place in...
If any team is going to go wire to wire in the Frontier League pennant race, there are going to be all sorts of challenges along the way. So far, over the first five weeks of the season, the Miners have handled whatever’s been thrown...
