The story of Pensacola’s Community Maritime Park begins not with grand plans or city council meetings, but with folding chairs at a junior college and a man who “didn’t know there was…
Category: Baseball
Blue Wahoos offer season ticket holders “Right Idea, Right Time”
If you are a season ticket holder with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, check your emai for: Hello Season Ticket Members! We’re excited to offer you a complimentary copy of Right Idea, Right…
Home Runs for Homes: A Perfect Fourth of July Celebration
What could be better than combining America’s favorite pastime with one of our community’s most important causes? This Independence Day weekend, Pensacola Habitat for Humanity is bringing together baseball, fireworks, and affordable…
The Fire Starter who launched the Community Maritime Park
This weekend, Quint Studer wrote for the PNJ about Fire Starters and how they nurture the passion and purpose in others by maintaining their own inner flame through self-care while focusing on…
Marlins name Prada as new manager for Blue Wahoos
The Miami Marlins announced today that Nelson Prada will lead the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos as manager for the 2025 season. Prada has over 700 career wins.
Blue Wahoos HR leader traded to Phillies
Pensacola Blue Wahoos catcher Paul McIntosh has been traded to the Philadelphia Phillies organization as part of a deal that included Marlin’s left-handed starter Jesus Luzardo in exchange for shortstop Starlyn Caba…
Breaking: Blue Wahoos giving away Taylor Swift concert tickets
Just received: The Pensacola Blue Wahoos are giving away two tickets to Taylor Swift’s October 25 concert at the Ceasars Superdome in New Orleans as part of their “Low E.R.A.s Night” at…
Breaking: Auburn vs FSU baseball at Blue Wahoos Stadium
As I reported on the radio this morning, the Florida State baseball team will hold fall exhibition games against two SEC schools, including a doubleheader in Pensacola at Blue Wahoos Stadium on…
Drone Show @ Blue Wahoo Stadium
After their Saturday, July 20 game against the Mississippi Braves, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos will have a first-of-its-kind drone show lighting up the sky above Pensacola Bay. The show, called “Celebration of…
Blue Wahoos manager breaks wins records
Written by Carter Bainbridge Pearl, Miss. – The Pensacola Blue Wahoos clinched a series victory with a 9-1 win over the Mississippi Braves on Sunday. With the victory, fourth-year Pensacola manager Kevin…
Daily Outtakes: Wahoos end home stand with walk-off
Written by Bill Vilona Pensacola, Fla. – The players raced from the dugout and a filled ballpark erupted in glee. The Blue Wahoos couldn’t have dreamed a better ending to their only…
Blue Wahoos hosting first ever drone show
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos announced Monday that after their Saturday, July 20 game against the Mississippi Braves, a first-of-its-kind drone show will light up the sky above Pensacola Bay. “Celebration of America”…
Wahoos start season 3-0
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos hammered Mississippi Braves pitching prospect Hurston Waldrep on Sunday afternoon, coasting to a 9-1 victory to improve to 3-0 on the young season. With a season-opening weekend sweep,…
Plenty of baseball at Blue Wahoo Stadium, starting today
From Bill Vilona: Four weeks from Friday, the official start of the Blue Wahoos season happens. But we’ve got a lot going on at the ballpark before Opening Day of the Southern…
Daily Outtakes: Guns, Facebook and Baseball – American favorites
Last Saturday night, four people were taken to hospitals late Saturday night after gunshots were fired in Denver. A fifth victim was discovered Sunday morning. All five are expected to survive their…
Daily Outtakes: Good News, Bad News and Wahoos
Good News: Another Florida Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday begins on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, and ends on Friday, Sept 8. You can purchase qualifying items related to disaster preparedness exempt from…
Vilona on Blue Wahoos baseball
Pensacola Sports Hall of Famer Bill Vilona discusses sports reporting and the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.
Daily Outtakes: Now We Know
Fake Battles On Tuesday, the Escambia County School Board approved an emergency rule empowering Interim School Superintendent Keith Leonard to remove from the schools any book challenged for its sexual content. The…
UWF Masters in ‘Money Ball’
Beginning in Fall 2023, the University of West Florida will offer a new Master of Science in Administration with a specialization in sport administration. The graduate program will be offered fully online….
Daily Outtakes: Westside redevelopment
Buying Pensacola Motor Lodge The City’s Westside Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) will consider a proposal to buy the Pensacola Motor Lodge on West Cervantes Street at its meeting on Monday, June 12….
