JOLIET — Don't be surprised if the Joliet Slammers Frontier League baseball team doesn't resemble a Runnin' Redskins team before long.

This past offseason, amongst the many changes made to the team at Silver Cross Field was naming a new partnership group and a new general manager. That new general manager may be familiar to fans of the MCHS baseball team as it is 1999 graduate Chris Franklin.

Frankin said that he kept his baseball playing dreams alive as long as he could after hanging up his Redskins uniform following a team that won a regional championship. He played four years at Blackburn College before getting involved in front office work for minor league baseball.