The Normal CornBelters are moving from the professional baseball ranks to summer collegiate league play. … MORE
Category Archives: Normal Cornbelters
CornBelters place 4 on Frontier League end-of-season All-Star squad
The CornBelters have placed four players on the Frontier League All-Star team for the 2018 season.… MORE
CornBelters: Cheaper concessions, more entertainment planned in 2018
Normal’s minor league baseball team is making lots of changes heading into its ninth season in hopes of bringing more fans back to the Corn Crib.… MORE
CornBelters sign Canseco to 3-day contract
The Normal CornBelters have announced that Jose Canseco will be joining the roster for a weekend series in the 2018 season.… MORE
CornBelters hire Billy Horn as manager
Gearing up for the 2018 Frontier League season, the Normal CornBelters have hired their third manager.… MORE
CornBelters set date for 2018 Legends Game
The Normal CornBelters and the Town of Normal have announced details for the third annual Legends Game at The Corn Crib in Normal.… MORE
CornBelters manager Carey leaves for New Jersey team
The Normal CornBelters have announced manager Brooks Carey has accepted a position with the New Jersey Jackals of the independent Canadian-American Baseball League.… MORE
CornBelters’ Chirino named Frontier League post-season All-Star
The Normal CornBelters have placed infielder Santiago Chirino on the Frontier League post-season All-Star squad.… MORE
CornBelters sweep weekly Frontier League awards
The Normal CornBelters have grabbed both of the weekly awards issued by the Frontier League.… MORE
CornBelters’ Sebald named Frontier League Pitcher of the Week
Normal CornBelters starting pitcher Scott Sebald has been named Frontier League Pitcher of the Week.… MORE
Blogs
WJBC Voices: The safe, legal and rare fraud
At one time, Hillary Clinton’s mantra about abortion was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” I suspected then that she really meant only the “legal” part, and time has borne out that suspicion.
WJBC Voices: Rauner’s Toyota claim a misleading, false promise
On September 27, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner told the Pantagraph that Bloomington-Normal was in serious contention for a Mazda-Toyota auto plant, but the existence of unions and Illinois laws lost the potential jobs to Alabama.
WJBC Voices: “Progressive” has nothing to do with progress
One of the gubernatorial candidates is advocating a progressive income tax as the solution to the state’s economic problems.
WJBC Voices: Celebrating local workers
By Mike Matejka Labor Day is perhaps the most mis-understood holiday in the nation’s calendar. Traditionally viewed as a summer’s end celebration, its real roots are in worker protest, trying to claim and celebrate their role in society. In Bloomington, local unions organize and march together, along with community groups and aspiring politicians, in Monday’s…