York is home now for the rest of the best-of-five series, and is in position to join Somerset (2008-09) as the only back-to-back winners since the league started in '98.
BLUE CRABS RADIO VOICE TAKES ON NEW ROLE
Josh Caray added a big name to the Independent ranks this season. Now the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs radio broadcaster has taken on a new assignment.
Caray, the grandson of legendary radio voice Harry Caray, has returned for a second year as a studio host for IMG College, which airs a great many collegiate football and basketball games. Caray will work out of the Winston-Salem, NC facilities of IMG College.
"It was really interesting," Caray said of his first Atlantic League season. "The play was good, the stadiums are good and guys are fighting to get out of here (when major league organizations come calling). It is pretty close to Triple-A."
Caray, who hopes to add his name to the three generations of his family who have made a name in major league baseball, is the son of the late Skip Caray and half-brother of current Braves broadcaster Chip Caray.
SUDDEN STARDOM
Atlantic League brass does not hesitate to point out that it is not common for a player to excel in the league unless he has made a mark at Class AA or higher.
Stephen Douglas became one of the exceptions during the first round of the playoffs. Douglas, 26, has not played above the low-Class A New York-Penn League in affiliated baseball, but he hit .529 and his nine safeties (9-for-17) for Lancaster were tops for any player in the Freedom Division Series in which York outlasted the Barnstormers in five games. The left-handed-hitting outfielder was a .378 hitter during the summer as he helped Grand Prairie, TX take the American Association title before moving on to Lancaster for the final four games of the regular seasson.
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