Lakeshore Chinooks
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| League | Northwoods League (South) |
| Location | Mequon, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Ballpark | Kapco Park |
| Year founded | 2012 |
| League championships | 1 (2014) |
| Division championships | South First Half, 2013; South First Half, Second Half and Playoff, 2014 |
| Colors | Lake blue, black, silver, white |
| Ownership | Jim Kacmarcik, John Hammond, Jon Hammes, Dan Laine, Jeff Prochnow, Robin Yount, Carl Claerbout, Scott Roeker, Bob Uecker, Dave Fischer, Tom Multerer, Bill Johnson, Bob Johnson. |
| Management | Dean Rennicke (GM) |
| Manager | Eddie Morgan (2013-Present) |
| Media | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| Website | LakeshoreChinooks.com |
The Lakeshore Chinooks are a baseball team based in Mequon, Wisconsin, United States and a member of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. The Chinooks play their home games at Kapco Park on the campus of Concordia University Wisconsin.
Summer collegiate leagues provide an opportunity for college players to spend their summers and display their talents to professional scouts. Players must be enrolled in college and have at least one year of athletic eligibility to participate. College players gain experience with the opportunity to play under the minor league conditions using wooden bats, minor league specification baseballs, overnight road trips, and playing nightly before fans.
College interns gain experience by handling a number of duties at Chinooks games including ticketing, operations, on-field promotions, and webcast production. Games are webcast via the Northwoods League website.
Chinooks players stay with local host families during the season. More than two dozen local families provide housing.
Ticket prices are $12 reserved box, $9 reserved grandstand, $6 general admission.
The Lakeshore Chinooks became the seventh Northwoods League team in Wisconsin. Based at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon, a northern suburb of Milwaukee, the Chinooks were the first Northwoods League franchise to make its home in a major metropolitan area.
Kapco Inc., a metal fabrication and stamping company in Grafton, donated $1 million toward completion of the school's new baseball field, named Kapco Park. The donation was part of a $2.7 million fund already allocated for the stadium. Concordia's baseball team uses Kapco Park in the spring.
The Chinooks were the first Northwoods League franchise to make its home on a university campus. Kapco Park acknowledges the Milwaukee Brewers with its outfield dimensions, the last two numbers reflected in famous uniforms - 317 feet in left for Jim Gantner, 344 to left-center for Hank Aaron, 404 to center for Paul Molitor and 319 to right for Robin Yount, who helped design the fence.
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