The Brockton Rox are returning to professional baseball, with the team set to join the Frontier League.
A collegiate summer baseball team since 2012, the Rox have been a member of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat league with seven other teams from New England.
But under a new ownership group highlighted by Red Sox Hall of Famer Jim Rice, the team is heading back to independent pro ball.
“I am very excited to be part of the Brockton Rox ownership group,” Rice said in a statement. “As a Massachusetts resident, I am thrilled to be part of a professional baseball organization in my own backyard.”
The team was initially founded as an independent professional team back in 2002 and spent several years in the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball (also known as the Can-Am League) before joining the FCBL.
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The Rox are going back to their roots with the Frontier League, an MLB Partner League which absorbed teams from the Can-Am League in 2019. Their games are played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton.
The Rox had been sharing Campanelli Stadium with the New England Knockouts, an independent league team founded in 2023. According to the Enterprise News, the collegiate team is folding while the Knockouts take back the Brockton Rox name to continue play in the Frontier League.
Amin Touri can be reached at amin.touri@globe.com.
