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All three Alaska Goldpanners games have been canceled this week with two cancellations stemming from three Goldpanners testing positive for Covid-19. The first game was canceled due to rain in the Chugiak Tuesday evening.
Goldpanners General Manager John Lohrke confirmed to the News-Miner that three players tested positive for the novel coronavirus Tuesday evening. The team informed the Mat-Su Miners and the Anchorage Glacier Pilots of the positive tests, and both teams declined to play the Goldpanners for their previously scheduled Wednesday and Thursday games.
This is the second time this season the team s schedule has been interrupted due to positive Covid tests. Games scheduled for June 14 and 15 had to be canceled due to the Panners not having enough players after multiple positive tests. At that time, Lohrke said roughly half the team had been vaccinated and he anticipated more would become vaccinated following the initial suspension of play.
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Years before he became commissioner of the Alaska Baseball League, Chris Beck pointed to the 6-foot-7 slugger in the Anchorage Glacier Pilots’ uniform and told his son to say hello.
Beck had a feeling about the freshman from Fresno State a towering outfielder named Aaron Judge.
“I told my son to go get his autograph, because he just was different,” Beck said.
It was a quintessential college summer league experience, an up-close look at a major league star long before his big break. It’s one Beck hopes fans in the 49th State will have for years but he’s not entirely confident they will.
Beck had a feeling about the freshman from Fresno State a towering outfielder named Aaron Judge.
“I told my son to go get his autograph, because he just was different,” Beck said.
It was a quintessential college summer league experience, an up-close look at a major league star long before his big break. It’s one Beck hopes fans in the 49th State will have for years but he’s not entirely confident they will.
Already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic and changes in player development that have limited their prospect pool, collegiate summer leagues like the ABL and the Northwoods League were hit by another potential obstacle recently when Major League Baseball announced the formation of at least two amateur leagues for college players with professional aspirations.