The Strasburg Express are a

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team playing in the Northern Division of the

Valley Baseball League The Valley Baseball League is an NCAA and MLB-sanctioned collegiate summer baseball league in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. The league was started in 1923 and sanctioned by the NCAA in 1961. It has been a wooden bat league since 1993 ...

. The team is based in

Strasburg, Virginia Strasburg is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, which was founded in 1761 by Peter Stover. It is the largest town by population in the county and is known for its grassroots art culture, pottery, antiques, and American Civil W ...

and plays its home games at First Bank Park, on the grounds of Sandy Hook Elementary School. Strasburg joined the league in 2011, replacing the defunct Fauquier Gators. The Express have won three Valley League championships, in 2015, 2016, and 2021. Following the 2016 championship, the team was ranked 8th in the nation among collegiate summer teams. The team's current coach is George Laase, who joined the team for the 2020 season, but after COVID-19 wiped out the season, returned in 2021. A previous manager includes former

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third baseman

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, who managed the team in 2016 after serving as the director of scouting the year before.

References

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