St. Cloud Rox | |
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League | Northwoods League (1994-pres) (Great Plains West Division: 2019-pres) (North Division: 1998-2018) |
Location | St. Cloud, Minnesota |
Ballpark | Joe Faber Field |
Founded | 1994 |
League championships | River Bats: (1998, 2000, 2007) Rox: (2017) |
Division championships | River Bats: 6 (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007) Rox: 4 (2015, 2017, 2021, 2023) |
Former name(s) | St. Cloud River Bats (1997–2011), Dubuque Mud Puppies (1994-1996) |
Former ballparks | Dick Putz Field |
Colors | Light Blue, Navy Blue, Grey & Red |
Mascot | Chisel |
Ownership | Rox Local Group: Gary Posch, Joe Sexton, Scott Schreiner |
Manager | Brian Lewis |
Media | St. Cloud Times WJON |
Website | stcloudrox.com |
The St. Cloud Rox are a baseball team that play in the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. Their home games are played at the Joe Faber Field in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
The franchise was one of the five founding members of the league in 1994 and was located in Dubuque, Iowa. The team was nicknamed the Mud Puppies.
St. Cloud, Minnesota has hosted baseball for decades at a variety of play levels. Baseball returned to the city in 1997 in the Northwoods League with the relocation of the Mud Puppies. With the move came a new name for the team, the St. Cloud River Bats.[1] The River Bats were a premier team in the Northwoods League, winning 3 league championships, one North Division overall championship, and 3 First Half North Division pennants.
In February 2012, the Northwoods League sold the team rights to a local interest group while reserving the rights to the name and logo. The St. Cloud franchise played the 2012 season as the St. Cloud Rox, hearkening back to a popular minor league team that played in the city until 1971.[2]
Rox games can be heard on 1390 Granite City Sports. Alexander Fern, a student at St. Cloud State University, and Broadcaster for St. Cloud State Huskies men's ice hockey, is the radio play-by-play voice of Rox Baseball.