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Keeping Score: Clubbie insider Good morning! Few baseball books have been written about life at the bottom of baseball’s food chain. According to baseballamerica.com, each franchise has over 200 players under contract not including rookie league players in Arizona, Florida and the Dominican Republic, and only 26 of them can be on a big league roster. A scout in Jupiter, Fla., once told me that only seven percent of players who sign a pro baseball contract ever make it to the major leagues. “Including the ones who only got called up for a cup of coffee,” he added. In the minor leagues ...

Chesapeake Energy said three executives are leaving, marking the latest shakeup of the senior ranks at the Oklahoma oil and gas producer since it emerged from bankruptcy four months ago.

Chesapeake Energy announced after markets closed Friday three key managers have departed. Former CEO Doug Lawler left the company in April.

Jun. 4—Greg Larson is a 32-year old writer, currently living and working in Austin, Texas, where he has been for three years. Just shy of 10 years ago, Larson took on the job of clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen IronBirds. Larson filled that role over two seasons, 2012 and 2013 and from his own struggles, he wrote a book; Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir. Larson talked about life and ...

   If you were in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the 1980s and you tuned your television to channel four, you might have seen Lillian Atmak Michael announcing the Yup’ik news. You would see her long, straight black hair parted in the middle, and her big glasses that covered nearly half of her face. What you wouldn’t see was the complex linguistic surgery she was conducting in her mind. Former KYUK news director Rhonda McBride said that Atmak would not only translate the English news into Yup’ik, but she would also completely restructure the information for a Yup’ik audience.