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:
The Blue Thunder went on the road and defeated the Texarkana Gunslingers by a final score of 5-4.
Here is an archive of the old Tarrant County Blue Thunder website page which lists the members of the team’s front office:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070831160223/http://www.tarrantproball.com/team/frontoffice/
We found an archive of the old Tarrant County Blue Thunder website which has player statistics for the 2007 season:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070831155258/http://www.tarrantproball.com/stats/team/
Found an article which lists the All-Stars in the history of the Alexandria Aces, including the 2009 CBL All-Stars. That link was added to the Aces page here:
Nick Shay won the 2008 CBL home run derby in McKinney, Texas in July 2008. Nick represented the Corpus Christi Beach Dawgs.
A video of his round in the Derby is now added to the page for that event here:
A recent article came out about Auburn’s assistant athletic trainer, Andrew Crane, who was with the Bay Area Toros. Here is the link to the article:
Thanks to former Texarkana Gunslingers player Brendan Rubenstein for sending us his photos of the front and back of most of the 2008 team’s baseball card set. Those images are now on the Memorabilia page here:
Ryan Powell played a few games in the CBL, in 2008 with the Texarkana Gunslingers and 2009 with the Big Bend Cowboys. He got injured but returned in 2011 in the Pecos League to be a player-manager with the Carlsbad Bats and then finished his time with the Trinidad Triggers in 2012.
He joined the Baltimore Orioles in 2013 as a scout for the independent leagues, but then was able to honor his ailing mother by playing a spring training game with the Orioles. Here are the links (including from MLB.com) and a video clip of him on ESPN (all rights go to ESPN, the video was uploaded to Ryan’s YouTube channel) about the story. In some of the articles, the Big Bend Cowboys are mentioned:
We found 2 photos of baseball cards from the 2008 Texarkana Gunslingers set. Those have been added to the Memorabilia page here: http://www.cblproball.com/memorabilia/
We also found a Beckett.com listing of all of the cards from that baseball card set. The link to that page has been added to the Gunslingers’ page here: Texarkana Gunslingers
Just added several random articles about the 2009 and 2010 Big Bend Cowboys. Some include fan reviews of the stadium, a brief bio on the team’s last manager – Ryan Stevens, review of the logo and uniform when they were made public and more.
All have been added to the Big Bend Cowboys page here: