Class C baseball in Essig, Minnesota
The Essig Bluejays are an amateur baseball club from Essig, Minnesota, playing Class C in the Tomahawk East League under the Minnesota Baseball Association. They went 6-14 in 2026 under manager Sam Hansen at Essig Ballpark, on East Ballpark Street.
Essig is an unincorporated community in Brown County with a population in the low hundreds, and it has a ballpark, a street named Ballpark Street, and a team in an organized league. The Minnesota Baseball Association files the address under New Ulm, eight miles east, because the postal service does too.
Seven classification points is near the floor of Class C, which is the association looking at Essig and finding almost nothing to count except the fact that they keep showing up.
A settlement that small keeping a diamond, a street name and a Sunday side going is the entire argument for Minnesota town ball in one place.
An unincorporated settlement with a ballpark, a street named Ballpark Street and a team in an organized league. High Cheese gives Essig an address of its own instead of New Ulm's.
Essig Bluejays in detail
- A summer season of Tomahawk East League games, region games and invitationals.
- Essig Bluejays finished 2026 at 6-14 in the Tomahawk East League.
- Results with full box scores on the club's MBA page.
- A published roster with positions, ages and schools.
- Season hitting and pitching lines, plus per-game box scores.
- Sam Hansen manages; the club lists no email or phone.
- No published tryout, form or fee.
- Home is Essig Ballpark, 21261 E Ballpark St, New Ulm, Minnesota 56073.
- MBA rules, Class C at 7 classification points.
- News runs through the MBA state feed, not the club.
- In-season invitationals, with the MBA state tournament above them.
- No founding date or title list published.
- No club officers published.
- Documents belong to the association, not the club.
- The MBA runs a state calendar; the club's dates are games.
- No merchandise or store published.
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