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The Lancaster Barnstormers have added a slugging first baseman to their roster for the upcoming season.

Cesar Nicolas was signed by the 'Stormers after being acquired in a three-team deal that also involved Atlantic League rival York and Grand Prairie of the American Association.

But the signi...

The Lancaster Barnstormers have signed the 2011 American Association batting champion and the 2011 Frontier League ERA titlist for the 2012 season.

Outfielder Blake Gailen and right-hander Mark Brackman become the third and fourth players officially under contract.

Gailen, 26, an outfielder fr...

Outfielder Adam Godwin will return to the Lancaster Barnstormers' dugout for the 2012 season, the team announced today.

Godwin spent part of last season in Lancaster before being dealt to the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs for the rights to left-handed pitcher John Halama. Godwin was batting .256 w...

Most baseball fans in Lancaster already know that the Barnstormers have a pretty good "War of the Roses" rivalry going with the York Revolution.

And most hockey fans know there's a "Winter Classic," an outdoor game featuring a pair of NHL teams, this time of year.

And the Barnstormers, as they...

Their current general manager is moving up in the team's front office.

Plus, having a general manager "is just not necessary in our structure."

So the Lancaster Barnstormers plan to have no GM on their front-office roster when the 2012 season begins.

Vince Bulik, who has been in the GM post...

Atlantic League executives have named Barnstormers first baseman Tommy Everidge as the league's Player of the Year for the 2011.

In addition, Lancaster right-hander Matt Wright was selected as the league's Pitcher of the Month for September.

Everidge finished the season with league-leading mar...

They're among the first things you see when you walk into Jon Danos' second-floor office at Clipper Magazine Stadium.

They're vertical, framed photos of Danos with his family — wife Laura, young twin sons Luca and Christopher and even younger daughter Ava — celebrating on a Sunday eve...

They provide a physical contrast, to say the least.
Butch Hobson looks lean and athletic, very much like a former University of Alabama football player.
Andy Etchebarren is a short, paunchy Tasmanian devil of a man. When he takes his cap off, there's either severe hat-head or a kind of quasi-punk ha...

It all ended so quickly. One minute it looked like the Lancaster Barnstormers were headed to the Atlantic League championship series. The next minute, their season was over and players who had spent the last five months together were heading their separate ways.

"It's a long season and a lot of w...

A five-game series came down to one run in extra innings Monday night at Clipper Magazine Stadium. Unfortunately for fans of the Lancaster Barnstormers, the series-deciding run was scored by the York Revolution.

The Revs beat the 'Stormers, 5-4 in 10 innings, and will now advance to play the Long...