The Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks are a college summer baseball club in the Alaska Baseball League (ABL). The Chinooks are based in

Chugiak Chugiak is an unincorporated community in the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska, situated approximately northeast of downtown Anchorage. Geography Chugiak is located between Eagle River to the south and Eklutna to the nort ...

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

, United States. The team is operated by Athletes in Action. They won their first ABL Championship in 2007. Until 2010 the team was based out of Fairbanks under the name AIA Fire. The team relocated to Chugiak in 2011.

Notable alumni

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201924/http://www.cerchinooks.com/about/abl-history/ * http://www.cerchinooks.com/roster/ Alaska Baseball League Amateur baseball teams in Alaska 2010 establishments in Alaska Baseball teams established in 2010 Baseball teams in Alaska {{Alaska-baseball-team-stub