Here are the batting and pitching leaders for the 2008 Continental Baseball League regular season:

LEADING BATTERS (MINIMUM 3.1 PLATE APPEARANCES PER TEAM GAME PLAYED)

Player                Club    AVG   SLG   OBP   G  AB   R   H  TB 2B 3B HR RBI  BB IW  SO GDP HP SH SF SB CS 
*Edwards, Anthony      TEX   .324  .425  .397  70 275  50  89 117  8  7  2  43  26  3  28   4  8  8  1 15  9  
Wells, Kyle           BAY   .315  .376  .399  60 197  25  62  74  4  1  2  30  27  1  24   4  2  8  2  6  0  
Kmetko, Tyler         COR   .300  .332  .362  65 223  36  67  74  5  1  0  16  16  1  19   5  6  9  1 12  7  
Filyaw, Gene          MCK   .300  .399  .371  62 233  30  70  93  9  4  2  34  16  0  44   2 12  1  3  7  6  
Plecki, Greg          BAY   .297  .360  .389  66 222  36  66  80  9  1  1  22  23  1  31   3 11  8  1 29  8 
*Crimoli, Gene         TEX   .290  .361  .386  66 238  31  69  86 12  1  1  37  37  2  49   5  1  1  1  7  4  
Massie, Grant         BAY   .287  .368  .371  67 223  46  64  82  6  3  2  32  25  0  46   2  7  5  4 13  3  
Quintana, Frank       TEX   .245  .335  .333  66 212  31  52  71 10  0  3  22  19  0  67   4 10  4  2  2  0  
Brown, Eric           BAY   .240  .352  .326  58 196  32  47  69 12  2  2  26  17  1  30   5  9  6  2 21  4 
#Rubenstein, Brendan   TEX   .239  .287  .404  61 209  26  50  60  6  2  0  26  55  0  32   1  3  8  0  8  7

HOME RUNS Morgan, 
Josh (COR)                 3 
Quintana, Frank (TEX)              3 
Pagan, Joe (MCK)                   3 
Cattell, Ryan (BAY)                3 
Burum, Ben (BAY)                   3 
Shay, Nick (COR)                   3 

RUNS BATTED IN 
Edwards, Anthony (TEX)            43 
Crimoli, Gene (TEX)               37 
Filyaw, Gene (MCK)                34 

SLUGGING PERCENTAGE 
Edwards, Anthony (TEX)          .425 
Filyaw, Gene (MCK)              .399 
Wells, Kyle (BAY)               .376 

ON-BASE PERCENTAGE 
Rubenstein, Brendan (TEX)       .404 
Wells, Kyle (BAY)               .399 
Edwards, Anthony (TEX)          .397 

RUNS 
Edwards, Anthony (TEX)            50 
Massie, Grant (BAY)               46 
Hastings, Ray (TEX)               36 
Kmetko, Tyler (COR)               36 
Plecki, Greg (BAY)                36 

HITS 
Edwards, Anthony (TEX)            89 
Filyaw, Gene (MCK)                70 
Crimoli, Gene (TEX)               69 

DOUBLES 
Pagan, Joe (MCK)                  13 
Burum, Ben (BAY)                  13 
Crimoli, Gene (TEX)               12 
Brown, Eric (BAY)                 12 
Burgess, Pat (TEX)                12 

TRIPLES 
Edwards, Anthony (TEX)             7 
Filyaw, Gene (MCK)                 4 
Massie, Grant (BAY)                3 

TOTAL BASES 
Edwards, Anthony (TEX)           117 
Filyaw, Gene (MCK)                93 
Crimoli, Gene (TEX)               86 

BASES ON BALLS 
Rubenstein, Brendan (TEX)         55 
Pagan, Joe (MCK)                  48 
Crimoli, Gene (TEX)               37 

STOLEN BASES 
Plecki, Greg (BAY)                29 
Diaz, Jason (BAY)                 26 
Revis, Brandon (MCK)              22

LEADING PITCHERS (MINIMUM 1 INNING PITCHED PER TEAM GAME PLAYED)

Player                Club   W- L   PCT    ERA  G GS CG SHO GF SV    IP TBF  AB   H   R  ER HR SH SF HB  BB IW  SO WP BK  
Cooper, Kevin         BAY   5- 3  .625   1.71 16 14  0   0  0  0  95.0 388 330  56  31  18  2  9  1  9  39  1  83  6  6  
Revere, Russell       BAY   8- 4  .667   1.84 18 13  4   1  3  3 107.2 455 402  90  38  22  1  7  7 10  29  2  62  3  0  
Parker, Travis        COR   3- 5  .375   1.85 12 10  2   0  0  0  77.2 334 291  62  29  16  2  8  1  4  30  0  53  5  1  
Leger, Ryan           MCK   6- 3  .667   2.42 14 14  0   0  0  0  89.1 374 342  85  33  24  1  3  2  3  24  0  52  0  0  
Barr, Brian           TEX   9- 3  .750   2.54 15 12  2   1  1  0  88.2 371 339  82  32  25  0  3  2  6  21  0  80  2  0  
Kondratowiz, Ryan     COR   6- 5  .545   2.59 15 13  2   1  0  0  87.0 364 319  77  40  25  1  5  2  8  29  0  38  4  0  
French, Tyler         TEX   3- 4  .429   2.78 15 14  1   0  0  0  87.1 371 318  73  38  27  3  9  2  5  37  0  65  3  0  
Milton, John          MCK   4- 6  .400   3.62 13 13  1   0  0  0  82.0 362 317  98  50  33  6 10  5  8  22  3  21  3  1

WINS 
Barr, Brian (TEX)                  9 
Revere, Russell (BAY)              8 
Fernandez, Alex (BAY)              8 

SAVES 
Castillo, George (MCK)            14 
Tilghman, Jack (TEX)              13 
Pello, Brandon (COR)               9 

STRIKEOUTS 
Cooper, Kevin (BAY)               83 
Barr, Brian (TEX)                 80 
French, Tyler (TEX)               65 

STRIKEOUTS PER 9 INNINGS 
Barr, Brian (TEX)               8.12 
Cooper, Kevin (BAY)             7.86 
French, Tyler (TEX)             6.70 

FEWEST RUNNERS PER 9 INNINGS 
Cooper, Kevin (BAY)             9.85 
Revere, Russell (BAY)          10.78 
Barr, Brian (TEX)              11.06 

FEWEST WALKS PER 9 INNINGS 
Barr, Brian (TEX)               2.13 
Milton, John (MCK)              2.41 
Leger, Ryan (MCK)               2.42 

FEWEST HITS PER 9 INNINGS 
Cooper, Kevin (BAY)             5.31 
Parker, Travis (COR)            7.18 
French, Tyler (TEX)             7.52 

GAMES PITCHED 
Tilghman, Jack (TEX)              38 
Jackel, William (TEX)             30 
McCavitt, Jordan (TEX)            25

Here is the link to the archived web page (from the old BlueThunderProBaseball.com website) with a quick recap and box score from the final game in McKinney Blue Thunder history:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080927115052/http://www.bluethunderprobaseball.com:80/news/pressreleases/index.html?article_id=176

The Blue Thunder went on the road and defeated the Texarkana Gunslingers by a final score of 5-4.

We found the link on Baseball Reference to the 2007 Tarrant County Blue Thunder’s roster.  That link was added to the team’s page here:

Tarrant County Blue Thunder

We just

We found an article going back to spring 2007.  It featured a quick recap and lots of player photos from the Bay Area Toros training camp, prior to the first game in CBL history.

The link has been added to the Toros page on this website:

Bay Area Toros

Here is a link to the CBL Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/continentalbaseballleague/

Feel free to request membership if you played, coached, or were otherwise involved in the league during the 2007-2010 era of the CBL.

Several YouTube videos of the Texarkana Gunslingers were just added to the Gunslingers page here:

• http://www.cblproball.com/teams/texarkana-gunslingers/

If you have additional content about the Gunslingers please contact this website or reach out through the Facebook group.  Thank you.

The Continental Baseball League was an independent professional baseball league (aka “independent minor league”) which operated from 2007 through 2010.  It had teams in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico.

This website will be offering lots of memories about the CBL and other relevant baseball topics.

Thank you for your interest.