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Champion City Half Trax

collegiate summer baseball league team in Springfield, Ohio

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ19864126 ↗
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The Champion City Half Trax are a college summer baseball team located in Springfield, Ohio. The Half Trax are a member of the wood-bat Prospect League and have been since 2013. The Kings play at Carleton Davidson Stadium, which is also the home of the NCAA DIII Wittenberg University Tigers.

The Half Trax are led by General Manager Danny Leach and Field Manager DJ Neff.

The franchise was previously located in Slippery Rock, PA and was known as the Sliders prior to relocating to Ohio in time for the 2014 season. The Sliders were originally a member of the Frontier League, but left the league after the 2007 season, its only year as a member.

After the 2025 season, the franchise would change its name from the Kings to the Half Trax.

The Half Trax play in the Prospect League's Eastern Conference – Northeast Division along with the Chillicothe Paints, Johnstown Mill Rats, Kokomo Creek Chubs, and Lafayette Aviators.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Champion City Half Trax” is collegiate summer baseball league team in Springfield, Ohio. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Champion, City and Half, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014, 2007, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Champion, City and Half is the immediate research focus.
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