Rockford Foresters Founded 2010 League Midwest Collegiate League (2010–2013) Based in Rockford, Illinois The Rockford Foresters were a collegiate summer baseball team based in Rockford, Illinois. They played in the Midwest Collegiate League (MCL), which was later renamed the Northern League.
History The Foresters began play in 2010. In 2012, their third season, owner Joe Stefani described the club as his first venture into sports ownership; the team played in the MCL alongside the DuPage County Hounds.
The Foresters played at Marinelli Field in Rockford. A 2012 Eastern Illinois University release listed Dane Sauer among the players assigned to the Foresters for that summer, confirming the team's collegiate-summer composition. The Northern League's alumni database records Foresters players from 2011 through 2013.
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