The Danville Dans are a collegiate summer league

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team located in

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. The team plays in the

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, which their former league, the

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-sanctioned

Central Illinois Collegiate League The Central Illinois Collegiate League (CICL) was a collegiate wooden bat summer baseball league. It was composed of five teams from Illinois and Indiana. The CICL was founded in 1963 as a charter member of National Collegiate Athletic Associatio ...

, was absorbed into after the 2008 season. In their history as a CICL team, the Dans won nine tournament titles. Since the merger of the CICL and the Prospect League, the Dans have qualified for the playoffs four times, with their best finish coming in 2010, when they were the runner-up to the league champion,

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. The Dans play in the Prospect League's Eastern Conference - Wabash River Division along with the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp,

Lafayette Aviators The Lafayette Aviators are a summer collegiate baseball team based in Lafayette, Indiana. They are a member of the Eastern Conference of the summer collegiate Prospect League. The Aviators play at Loeb Stadium in Columbian Park in Lafayette, wh ...

, and

Terre Haute Rex The Terre Haute REX are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Terre Haute, Indiana. They are a member of the summer collegiate Prospect League. They are managed by Tyler Wampler. The Rex play home games at Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium ...

Stadium

The Dans play their home games in 5,021-seat Danville Stadium. During the 2017 season, just under 50,000 people attended Danville Dans games, ranking the stadium as the second-most visited facility in the Prospect League in terms of overall fans and average per game.

Seasons

Roster

References

External links

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Danville Dans blog
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