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What is the Anchorage Glacier Pilots Legacy Project?It's a fan supported archive library and documentary series about the thousands of talented ball players from around the world playing baseball in Alaska for the historic Anchorage Glacier Pilots!
The AGP Legacy Project features Alumni interviews, a "Deadliest Catch/ NFL Films" documentary style internet series "In Flight: Pilots! " and a future feature film of the 2001 Glacier Pilots Team, and History of the Glacier Pilots. But we need you! Pilots fans please check your photo albums we need pics! Have a great Pilots story to tell? We want to hear from you! Please go to the Fan Donations page and find out how you can help to be a part of the team bringing these great stories and memories to the screen. Trailer for the incredible untold story of the 2001 National Baseball Congress and Alaska League Champions: The Anchorage Glacier Pilots!
This team has produced so many future Major League baseball players. The 2001 Team alone included Jeff Francis (Colorado Rockies), Ben Francisco (World Series Philadelphia Phillies 2008) and Mark Teahen (Kansas City Royals). Their story is so BIG - everything in Alaska is BIG! - that it will initially be featured in an ongoing 9-part (or more) web series: In Flight: Pilots premiered in the summer of 2016*. |
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NEW!!! The SEASONS Archive Library is now OPEN!!!!!
Want to hear a Glacier Pilots game from the past? Curious about the Stats and Box Score? Need to see Glacier Pilots Memorabilia from days gone by?? Please check out the new SEASONS section with links, photos and more!!!
Press a SEASON BUTTON and then explore past seasons from sports articles, stats, and CLICK on a Game to hear or see the broadcast of that Game. An Orange font is a link to the additional media. Now At Bat! - In Flight: Pilots! Hometown Heroes Part 1The incredible untold story of the 2001 National Baseball Congress and Alaska League Champions: The Anchorage Glacier Pilots!
This exciting new reality baseball series as the team chases the golden dream of winning the National Championship in Wichita! But first they have to beat one of the toughest summer baseball leagues in America: the Alaska Baseball League! Six teams of the highest caliber college baseball players in the country! In this segment local Alaskan pitching ace Brian Montalbo takes the mound and battles the red hot 2nd place Mat-Su Miners whose hitting machine is aching to take down the Glacier Pilots and claim the 1st place title in the Alaska Baseball League! This Anchorage Glacier Pilots has produced hundreds of future Major League baseball players. The 2001 Team alone included Jeff Francis (Colorado Rockies), Ben Francisco (World Series Philadelphia Phillies 2008) and Mark Teahen (Kansas City Royals). Diablos Del Sol Productions 2016 On Deck For Tuesday TBD -
HomeTown Heroes Part 2 Line Up Interviews Coming soon - Nez Balelo, Mike Brumley, Seguru Egawa, Mike Batesole, Korby Batesole and more former Glacier Pilots!
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that saw the likes of Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, and Dave Winfield take up its far-north diamonds before the joining the Big League. That’s when his father reminded him of his degree in broadcast journalism.
“It was his way of telling me, ‘Why don’t you do it? Why are you waiting for someone else to tell the story if you feel that passionately about it? ” Barr said. And so he did. The Anchorage native and longtime fan of the Anchorage Glacier Pilots devoted a summer following around the 2001 team. for the full story click here |
"I'm A Pilots Fan!"Glacier Pilots players, supporters and fans have a generations of great Alaskan baseball memories!
And there is a whole section of the Project especially for Pilots fans! Starting with a Fans Section and a Players section for photos and other great memories! We need really your help. We need photos of the Glacier Pilots in action from 1969 to today. So, if you're a Pilot alumni, fan or spend your life at Mulcahy and on the road with the team, we need you and your photos. Feel free to share and post them here. Thanks! Please post them at: https://www.facebook.com/GlacierPilotsLegacy or contact Robert Barr via the Contact and Links! 
Both Lefty Van Brunt and Jack O'Toole served in America's Armed Forces. For Jack it was the Army in World War 2 and he served a time in The Aleutian Islands and for Lefty it was the early days of the Air Force in Seward.
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The Best Game - Mark McGwire's Home Run |
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Mark McGwire recalls his days playing for the 1982 Anchorage Glacier Pilots team under Coach Jim Dietz and how playing on the team was a dramatic game changing moment for him as a baseball player for the rest of his life.
Check out more Great Alumni Interviews! select photos courtesy of www.goldpanners.com and www.usctrojans.com |
Jack O'Toole recalls this incredible baseball moment playing the Glacier Pilots "crosstown rivals" the Anchorage Bucs in a 1982 game, when Mark McGwire hits a home run for the win!
This and other great Alaskan baseball stories can be found on "Lefty & Jack" DVD. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlacierPilotsLegacy Twitter: @pilotslegacy |
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Lefty & Jack: Tall Tales
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If you love baseball, then you'll love these baseball stories from two well-loved Alaskan coaches who have trained thousands of ball players including Mark McGwire and Randy Johnson and hundreds of other MLB players. This is the first in a series of sports documentaries on the Anchorage Glacier Pilots baseball club.
Lefty Van Brunt and Jack O'Toole were the heart and soul of the ball club. They were there at its founding and helped the Glacier Pilots win five NBC Championships!
Lefty Van Brunt and Jack O'Toole were the heart and soul of the ball club. They were there at its founding and helped the Glacier Pilots win five NBC Championships!
