The background surrounding the most famous and infamous game in the history of minor league baseball, The Potato Game, is as crazy as the game itself. I should know, I was there.

A dozen professional baseball players played their high school or college careers in Idaho. Two are in MLB with the Oakland A’s and Philadelphia Phillies. Eight more are in Triple-A.

Boise lost its affiliated minor-league baseball team, the Boise Hawks, as Major League Baseball cut its number of lower-level teams. The Hawks will become an independent team in the Pioneer League.

GARDEN CITY, Idaho — The Boise Hawks are entering a new frontier after the minor league baseball team lost its affiliation with the MLB's Colorado Rockies on Wednesday. The Hawks aren't shutting ...

Following months of speculation, the Boise Hawks were not one of the 120 teams to receive a Minor League Baseball affiliation invite as part of a restructuring of the system, which contacted 40 teams.