PHOENIX -- The key priority Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia pointed to in his end-of-season press conference after a disastrous 2024-25 season was setting an identity for the team moving forward.

The majority of the players were Latin American. A 19-year-old Juan Soto in Campbell’s kitchen in Boonsboro, Md., during his three weeks with the Hagerstown Suns. (Courtesy of Brian Campbell) ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (DC News Now) — Three years after the Hagerstown Suns minor league baseball stadium was torn down, a new sports facility has opened in the area. The 114,000-square-foot ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On June 23, 1950, a 19-year-old Negro Leagues standout named Willie Mays skipped his high school prom and boarded a train for Maryland. The next day, in the former slave ...

The Boxcars' Perez, who shares a name with an injured Miami Marlins' pitcher, played for the Hagerstown Suns and a few major league teams, including the Washington Nationals.

Unlike the Suns, the Boxcars are not affiliated with a major league team. With construction on the multi-use stadium coming down to the wire, Boxcar officials are calling this first home stand a ...

That facility, once home to the Hagerstown Suns minor league baseball team, was torn down as the Maryland Stadium Authority began focusing on a new 5,000-seat stadium on Baltimore Street that will ...

Hagerstown has a long history as home to baseball teams. In 2019, Major League Baseball dissolved 42 minor league teams, including the Hagerstown Suns, who were the single-A affiliate of the ...

By SAM OSHTRY and JESSIE SCHWARTZ HAGERSTOWN — The ownership group of the new baseball team in Hagerstown aren’t baseball people. But they are Hagerstown people, and history has shown that local ...

Professional baseball is part of Hagerstown’s DNA. Pro teams have played in the city for more than 100 years with only brief gaps The latest gap began September 2, 2019, when the Hagerstown Suns ...

The Hagerstown Suns, a minor league affiliate of the Washington Nationals, played at Municipal Stadium, but the team disbanded in late 2020 after Major League Baseball shrunk the number of minor ...