Faribault Lakers

Class A baseball in Faribault, Minnesota

The Faribault Lakers are an amateur baseball club from Faribault, Minnesota, playing Class A in the Dakota Rice Scott League under the Minnesota Baseball Association. They went 13-12-1 in 2026 under manager Charlie Lechtenberg at Bell Field.

Thirty-four classification points is low for Class A, below the Alexandria Black Sox at thirty-five and a long way below the metropolitan clubs in the sixties and above. Faribault are playing the top grade on what is effectively a Class B number and finished one game over.

The tie is the fifth in this set. Ties happen because of darkness, curfews, or a field somebody else had booked, and the association records them rather than tidying them away.

Faribault is a Rice County seat of about twenty-four thousand where the Straight and Cannon rivers meet, and the club takes the least surprising name available in Minnesota.

Thirty-four points is the lowest Class A grade in the state and Faribault still finished over. High Cheese gives the Lakers somewhere that reads as the achievement it is.