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What is the Anchorage Glacier Pilots Legacy Project?Simply, It's a fan supported documentary series about thousands of talented ball players from around the world playing baseball in Alaska. The Project features Alumni interviews, a "Deadliest Catch/ NFL Films" documentary style internet series "In Flight: Pilots! " and 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 Sponsorships/ 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). The focus of the documentary film, with a June 2018* release date, is the 2001 Team. 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 premieried in the summer of 2016*. |
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Blast from the Past!- The 1984 Pilots Gazette!Courtesy of 1984 Glacier Pilot Mike Batesole. Mike shared this issue and issue 4 from his stash of Glacier Pilots memorabilia! This issue is 8 pages and features a recap of all the Pilots games played in July and a picture of Mike Batesole sliding into Home for a 22-2 Victory over the Bucs! ( Click on the picture above to browse this edition of the Pilots Gazette!)
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). Donate to support the show! 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!
* Release dates are tentative and are represent our best efforts.
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"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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Glacier Pilots historic 2001 season remembered in new documentary series
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KTVA Channel 11 Sports 1/04/16
by Dave Leval ANCHORAGE – In 2001, Anchorage’s Glacier Pilots baseball team provided fans with a season to remember. The team not only won the Alaska Baseball League title that year, but also the national championship in Wichita, KS Francis played on that winning team and remembers that incredible year. “I wanted to to go away somewhere to play summer baseball, the opportunity came up to go to Anchorage, [which] seemed like a good opportunity. [It] turned out good for me,” said Francis. Following that season, he was drafted by Colorado in the first round of the 2002 Major League draft. The story of that magical season is featured in the new online documentary, “In Flight Pilots,” produced by Anchorage native Robert Barr. “I couldn’t understand why the national media was ignoring all the great baseball stories that happened in Alaska, all the great college players that played,” Barr said. for the full story click here |
Capturing the Boys of Summerby Nolin Ainsworth
April 18, 2016 UAA True North Magazine Leading off He can still recount the conversation nearly two decades later. As he sat in the bleachers of Anchorage’s Mulcahy Stadium one summer with his father, Robert Barr complained about the absence of any major media coverage for the Alaska Baseball League. After all, this was an amateur league 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 |
In Flight: Pilots! - Reality TV Series!
Mark McGwire Interview -
1982 Glacier Pilots Team
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! Donate to support the show!
select photos courtesy of www.goldpanners.com and www.usctrojans.com
Check out more Great Alumni Interviews! Donate to support the show!
select photos courtesy of www.goldpanners.com and www.usctrojans.com
The Best Game - Mark McGwire's Home Run
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 sold thru the Anchorage Glacier Pilots store at www.glacerpilots.com
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Twitter: @pilotslegacy
This and other great Alaskan baseball stories can be found on "Lefty & Jack" DVD sold thru the Anchorage Glacier Pilots store at www.glacerpilots.com
Donate to support the show!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlacierPilotsLegacy
Twitter: @pilotslegacy
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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! The program can be purchased at the Pilots website. For more info: www.glacierpilots.com |
Lefty & Jack: Tall Tales
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Are you a Home Run Hitter?
Are you ready to be an All Star for the Glacier Pilots? Well, now you can. Pretend to be a Glacier Pilots Ace Pitcher or a Heavy Hitter! Where's the moose?
an amusing baseball game by www.miniclip.com
an amusing baseball game by www.miniclip.com