MACON - City officials have announced that Macon will get a new minor league baseball team this summer to replace the Atlanta Braves farm club that moved to Rome. <br>
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The new team will play in the independent Southeastern League. The league is based in Morgan City, Louisiana and starts its second season this summer. <br>
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A team nickname will be chosen through a contest and with help from the people of Macon. <br>
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Southeastern League president L.J. Dupuy says the team owners will be announced later this week. The city and the league are negotiating a three-year contract. <br>
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The league started last summer with six teams. Two teams -- the Americus Arrows and the Ozark Alabama Patriots -- folded in mid-July. The league now has teams in Houma and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Montgomery and Selma, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florida. <br>
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The team will play at 74-year-old Luther Williams Field. <br>
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The Macon Braves left for Rome in 2002 after 12 years in central Georgia.
