Mesa Miners

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Mesa Miners

Founded	2005
Ballpark	HoHoKam Park
Based in	Mesa, Arizona
Team Colors	Columbia Blue, Black, Old Gold
Division	Arizona
League	Golden Baseball League

The Mesa Miners are a defunct Golden Baseball League (GBL) team that was based in Mesa, Arizona. They played their home games at HoHoKam Park.

In their one year of play, the team won the first ever GBL Arizona Division title and played in the Championship Game against the San Diego Surf Dawgs. Unfortunately, the Miners had the league's worst overall attendance , (which is somewhat dubious because of the highly inflated attendance numbers that the Surprise Fightin' Falcons allegedly received) and was dropped from the Golden Baseball League in November 2005 [1]. The league dropped Surprise largely due to not having another team in central Arizona and to give the league an even number of six teams instead of seven. The low attendance numbers both teams received were due largely to the fact that many of their home games were played in the scorching afternoon heat of central Arizona. The Miners roster and coaching staff were carried over to the league's new Reno Silver Sox team, which won the GLB Championship in 2006. The GBL has said publicly that they would reconsider the Arizona market (Mesa and Surprise) if the league , the city of Mesa and the concessionaire at HoHoKam Park could agree on a revenue sharing agreement for concessions sales. In 2005 the Miners received none of the sales proceeds from their own games. The Miners were the only team in the league without revenue sharing on concessions.