Just before announcing investments into the Stamp Campus on Rt. 77 in Alabama, Senator Chuck Schumer held a three minute baseball trivia session at a dead end road surrounded by corn, local government officials, and media.
Schumer says he still working to keep Minor League Baseball alive in New York.
“With COVID everything slowed down, but I sat down with the minor leagues and Major League Baseball , and we have four teams at risk, the Muckdogs here in Batavia, the Rumble Ponies in Binghamton, the actual Yankees in Staten Island and the Double Days in Auburn, and I am working to save all of them,” says Schumer.
Last week, Schumer was instrumental in helping bring the Toronto Blue Jays to Buffalo to play the shortened 2020 season. Schumer wrote a letter and called MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to make his case that Buffalo is the perfect temporary home for the Blue Jays this season due to the proximity to Toronto.
Dear Honorable Schumer,
Please do all that you can to save baseball in New Yoek state, especially the Batavia Muckdogs!!
Please let them have their final season, 90 years strong. It’s been without a summer, in western New York, without the Batavia Muckdogs. Please, please and thank you!! Even if the last season is only a weekend, please make it happen.