Green Bay Bullfrogs
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| League | Northwoods League (South Division) |
| Location | Green Bay, Wisconsin |
| Ballpark | Joannes Stadium |
| Year founded | 2007 |
| League championships | 0 |
| Division championships | 2 (First Half: 2007), (Second Half: 2011) |
| Former name(s) | Green Bay Bullfrogs (2007-present) |
| Colors | black, orange, green |
| Ownership | Big Top Baseball - Steve Schmitt, Vern Stenman, Conor Caloia, Liz Kern |
| Manager | Darrell "Skip" Handelsman |
| Media | Play by Play Broadcaster: Parker Schwartz |
| Website | greenbaybullfrogs.com |
The Green Bay Bullfrogs are a baseball team that plays in the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. Their home games are played at Joannes Stadium in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The team, owned by Titletown Baseball Group, joined the league as an expansion franchise for the 2007 season along with the Battle Creek Bombers. The team was sold to the Northwoods League in late October 2013. The Northwoods League sold the team to Big Top Baseball in mid-November 2013.
With the approval of the lease on Joannes Stadium by the Green Bay City Council on September 19, 2006, the Northwoods League and Titletown Baseball Group headed by Majority Owner Jeff Royle was awarded a franchise to begin play the following season. This allowed renovations to begin on Joannes Stadium on September 20, 2006. Those renovations lasted through the spring of 2007. The club is the first team to play baseball in the city of Green Bay since the Green Bay Sultans, an independent minor league franchise in the now-defunct Prairie League, played a single season in 1996.[1]
The Green Bay Bullfrogs won the first half of the South Division in the Northwoods League, the first expansion team in the NWL's 14-year history to do so. They faced the Eau Claire Express in the first round of the playoffs. The Bullfrogs had home field advantage.
After winning game 1 of the division series in Eau Claire, the Bullfrogs returned to Joannes Stadium and lost games 2 and 3, thus ending an incredible inaugural season in the Northwoods League. The team still finished with a league-leading 43–25 overall record that included a then league-record 15-game winning streak, and at one time during the season the Bullfrogs were ranked as high as #2 in the nationally acclaimed "Summer 16", which ranks the top summer collegiate teams in the country. Three Bullfrogs players earned Post Season All-Star honors: Kurt Yacko, Danny Meier and Daniel Robertson. Robertson was also awarded with NWL CO-MVP honors. Field Manager Elliott Strankman was named the NWL Manager of the Year.
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