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The Slippery Rock Sliders were formed for the 2007 season to ensure an even number of teams with the Frontier League's addition of the Southern Illinois Miners . The Sliders played 32 home games at Jack Critchfield Park in Slippery Rock , Pennsylvania , with the remaining 64 played on the road . For the 2008 season , the Sliders became a traveling team , playing all of their games on the road under the geographical moniker , Midwest . The Sliders ' 2009 season began on May 29 , at Eastern Michigan University ' s Oestrike Stadium located in Ypsilanti , Michigan . The Sliders played strong - a 33-33 record after 66 games . However , countless injuries and the sale of top starting pitching led to a late-season slump . Pitcher James Albury was sold to the Chicago White Sox and pitcher Caleb Graham was sold to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim . The Sliders had 42 scheduled home dates with 54 scheduled road dates . The Oakland County Cruisers were scheduled move into Diamond at The Summit on July 16 , 2010 after playing three three-game series ( nine games total ) at Oestrike Stadium during the first half of the 2010 Frontier League season , however , the organization was unable to obtain funding in time for this to occur . The Cruisers played 78 of its 96 regular-season games on the road . The Cruisers led the Frontier League East for better than two months . However , the high amount of road games ( 30 more than any other team ) and the solid play of the Windy City Thunderbolts and Traverse City Beach Bums down the stretch led to a third-place finish - only four games out . Interim Manager Gera Alvarez won 2010 Frontier League Manager of the Year . Pitcher P.J. Zocchi and first baseman Joash Brodin were named to the Frontier League End-of-Year All-Star Team . Zocchi tied the Frontier League record for saves in a season with 26 ( matched Matt Petty of the Windy City Thunderbolts in 2007 ) and was named Frontier League Relief Pitcher of the Year . Construction on Diamond at The Summit was supposed to begin in October 2010 with the stadium completed in June 2011 . The complex would hold approximately 4,000 fans and function as a year-sound sports and entertainment complex in Waterford Township . After a groundbreaking ceremony with officials of Waterford Township , the area still sits as a vacant parking lot to the adjoining and vacant Summit Place Mall . A small sign touting the construction project sits on the corner of two shopping mall " streets " with fading color in a sea of weeds . The Sliders were Ypsilanti's first pro baseball team in nearly a century , since they were awarded a franchise in the Class D Border League in 1913 . The Border League was sometimes called a " trolley league " because its six franchises ( in southeastern Michigan and Ontario , Canada ) were located on the interurban lines ; they played a limited schedule of games , primarily on weekends . Managed by former major-leaguer Ducky Pearce , the unnamed Ypsilanti team took the pennant with a 24-10 record , then folded with the rest of the league . Ypsilanti thus held the distinction of being one of the few cities to win a championship in its only season hosting a pro ballclub . College baseball remains popular in Ypsilanti : Eastern Michigan University won a NAIA national championship in 1971 and made it all the way to the championship game of the NCAA College World Series in 1976 before losing to Arizona . The Hurons ( now Eagles ) remain the last northern school to play for the CWS title .