David Blenckstone This is Me

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1. 1. Hagerstown Suns About Us

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   Published on: 6/22/2001   Last Visited: 6/22/2001

   General Manager : David Blenckstone
   
   David enterers his fifth season as General Manager of the Suns. A 1990 graduate of the University of Delaware , David is responsible for the year round operations of the team.
   
   He started his career in minor league baseball as an assistant and then head groundskeeper for the Myrtle Beach Blue Jays before joining the team full-time before the 1991 season.
   
   David served as Director of Stadium Operations and Assistant General Manager for the Hagerstown club before being named General Manager of the Suns in October 1996.
   
   While at the University of Delaware , David played lacrosse for two years and was the Sports Editor of the school newspaper his senior year.
   
   David and his wife , Kim , live in Hagerstown with their son , Adam , 5 years old and two-year old daughter , Taylor

2. 2. Toronto Blue Jays Front Office Directory

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   Published on: 1/30/2001   Last Visited: 1/30/2001

   David Blenckstone General Manager
   
   Assistant GM / Stadium Operations

3. 3. The Herald-Mail ONLINE - Local Baseball

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   Published on: 6/19/2005   Last Visited: 6/20/2005

   The new era of Hagerstown minor league baseball would not be celebrating the 25th anniversary of playing at Municipal Stadium if it weren't for Blenckstone and his son David relocating his South Atlantic League franchise here from Myrtle Beach in 1992.
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   Winston and David Blenckstone and their families were honored before Saturday's game against West Virginia.
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   At the time, the move was a chance for Blenckstone to get back near his Baltimore roots while reviving the team he had owned since 1987. Over the course of his ownership, Blenckstone was the major reason why Hagerstown added a new reason to be known as the Hub City.
   
   "We came here because we had stadium issues in Myrtle Beach," Blenckstone said.
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   "If we hadn't moved here, there wouldn't have been a Delmarva, Lakewood or Lexington," Blenckstone said.
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   "This was a unique opportunity coming from where we did," said David Blenckstone, who was the Suns general manager for six seasons. "When we came here (former general manager Bob Miller) was showing us around and this stadium was unbelievable. This was an upgrade for us after playing on a college field with portable bleachers."
   
   The move became some of the best and worst times for Blenckstone.
   
   To some, the move was unwelcomed, bringing in a Toronto affiliation after 12 seasons of housing the beloved Baltimore Orioles farm system.
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   "The fans here are incredible," David Blenckstone said. "I don't know if they realize how good they are. There is such a small number of them, though, but that's OK. I don't know if we wouldn't have come, I'm not convinced that Hagerstown had any other prospects. If there would have been a two- or three-year gap, I don't know if baseball would still be here."
   
   When Blenckstone sold his franchise in 2001, the Blue Jays affiliation was gone and San Francisco had taken over. He moved back to his boyhood home of Baltimore, where he still resides. And most of all, he was part of keeping baseball in Hagerstown while opening the door to a new era in the minor league game.
   
   "Hagerstown is truly the hub of the Northern Division," Blenckstone said.