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Silver Spring–Takoma Thunderbolts

Information
League	Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League (2005–present) Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League (2000–2004)
Location	Silver Spring, Maryland
Ballpark	Montgomery Blair Baseball Stadium
Founded	2000
Nickname(s)	T-Bolts
League championships	2005 (co-champions), 2006
Colors	Blue and Maroon
2023 season	14–22
Management	Edward Sharp (president) Kevin Schweickhardt (vice president)
Manager	Brock Hunter
Website	www.tbolts.org

The Silver Spring–Takoma Thunderbolts is a collegiate summer baseball team based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Most of its players are drawn from the college ranks. The team is a member of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League (CRCBL). The Thunderbolts play their home games at Montgomery Blair Baseball Stadium. The Thunderbolts are funded through ticket sales, sponsorship, merchandise sales, donations, and other fundraising efforts at games.^[1]

History

In January 2000, Richard S. O’Connor purchased the charter rights to a collegiate summer baseball team in the Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League. The prior team was named the Southern Maryland Battlecats and played their home games in Charles County, Maryland.

Maryland Community Baseball, Inc., the parent corporation of the Thunderbolts was formed as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to promote youth baseball in the Silver Spring-Takoma area.^[2]^[3]

The team began play in June 2000 at three locations in Silver Spring. In 2002, Maryland Community Baseball Inc. signed a 20-year license agreement with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission to play all home games at Blair Stadium.^[4]

From 2000 to 2004, the Thunderbolts were members of the Clark Griffith Collegiate League. In 2005, the Thunderbolts became a charter member of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League. The Thunderbolts were the league's co-champions in 2005 and champions in 2006. They have also won the Montgomery Cup, boasting the best record of any Ripken League team in Montgomery County, twice since 2005.

The Thunderbolts returned to the League Championship Series in 2019, after sweeping the D.C. Grays in the semifinal round. They then took a 1–0 lead in the best-of-three LCS against the Bethesda Big Train, needing just one more win to clinch their first league title in 13 years, but dropped two straight to Bethesda, coming up short.^[5]

Notable alumni

Jonathan Papelbon, who was a closer for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Nationals.^[6]
Brett Cecil, in November, 2016 signed a 4-year, $30.5 million contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. For eight seasons he pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays.^[7] In 2013, he became the first Ripken League alum to play in an MLB All-Star Game.^[8]
Mike Chernoff, General Manager of the Cleveland Guardians.
Zach Clark, formerly a pitcher in the Baltimore Orioles organization.
Matt Mervis, first baseman in the Chicago Cubs organization.^[9]
Adam Mills, formerly a pitcher in the Boston Red Sox organization.
Jake Taylor, with the San Rafael Pacifics in the Independent Pacific Association, was discussed in the book, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work, by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller.

References

^ "Thunderbolts official web site". Retrieved April 22, 2008.
^ "Form 990-EZ: Short Form Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax" Maryland Community Baseball, Inc. December 31, 2015.
^ "Maryland Community Baseball Inc." Exempt Organization Select Check. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
^ tbolts.org/history
^ "Big Train wins fourth-consecutive CRCBL Championship". The Montgomery County Sentinel. 2019-08-02. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
^ "Baseball Reference web site". Retrieved 2017-01-03.
^ "Baseball-Reference web site". Retrieved 2017-01-03.
^ "Thunderbolts official web site". Retrieved 2017-01-03.
^ Adler, Kevin. "Thunderbolts Open Collegiate Baseball Season Sunday, June 4". Source of the Spring. Retrieved 31 May 2023.

External links

Official website

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Teams	Alexandria Aces Bethesda Big Train D.C. Grays Gaithersburg Giants Herndon Braves Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts
Former Teams	Baltimore Dodgers Baltimore Redbirds College Park Bombers Loudoun Riverdogs Southern Maryland Cardinals Rockville Express Youse's Maryland Orioles
See also	Ballparks

Silver Spring, Maryland

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Primary and secondary schools	Montgomery County Public Schools Montgomery Blair High School Nora School
Other education	Montgomery College Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library
Former	National Park Seminary Academy of the Holy Names

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Silver Spring–Takoma Thunderbolts

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Current	Silver Spring
Future	Lyttonsville Road Woodside Silver Spring Library Dale Drive Manchester Place Long Branch Piney Branch Road

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Prior to the 2010 census, Four Corners was classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as being part of its for statistical purposes only, census-designated place (CDP) of Silver Spring, and Montgomery Blair High is in the Four Corners CDP.

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