FYI: Used to go watch the minor league teams (Braves, Mets) at HW. Some restructuring took place last year.
Collegiate summer team
In conjunction with a contraction of
Minor League Baseball beginning with the 2021 season, the Appalachian League was reorganized as a
collegiate summer baseball league, and the Kingsport Mets were replaced by a new franchise in the revamped league designed for rising college freshmen and sophomores.
[2] The new team became known as the Kingsport Axmen.
[3] The nickname was in reference to frontiersman
Daniel Boone, who began the
Wilderness Road in Kingsport.
[3] The Axmen play their home games at
Hunter Wright Stadium.
[4] Boyd Sports oversees the day-to day operations of the team.
[5]
On July 15,
USA Baseball canceled the rest of the Kingsport Axmen's 2021 season after a player was arrested for making threats "to kill multiple people." A new team, called the Kingsport Road Warriors, was assembled to fill the Axmen's remaining schedule, which was to consist of only road games.
[6] Two weeks later, the team was cleared to return to Hunter Wright Stadium and resume use of the Axmen moniker.
[7]
