Well hello there.

My name is Bill Ivie and last year I launched a new Baseball Digest affiliate site known as I-70 Baseball. That site is supported by fourteen writers, a weekly internet radio show, and countless man hours of design, writing, and editing. The site covers the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals on a daily basis. All in all, the site has been successful and given birth to a new company, Ivie League Productions.

At Ivie League Productions, we look to capitalize on the success of that website to produce others similar to it. We also look to continue to provide top quality internet radio programming on a nightly basis. Currently, you can find shows five nights a week from Ivie League Productions, ranging in topics from all over baseball. The Sunday night show that was launched over a month ago is hosted by David Mitchell and Mark Donahue and supports the very site we announce to you today.

Today, it is my pleasure to bring you a team of writers dedicated to covering the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians. The writers here will be impartial observers of the team and will aim to keep the pulse on what you, the fans, are feeling. They have been tasked to bring the best coverage of the teams that they can and I have no doubt they will succeed.

I have said many times that the people that write for me on the various websites I represent are my favorite writers from around the world. This site is no different and I invite you all to add this site to your bookmarks, your Google Readers, or any other way you would like to read the content. The various voices will aim to entertain and inform you in as unique a way as possible while discussing the game we all love.

So welcome, to Battle Of Ohio Baseball, we all hope you enjoy.

Bill Ivie is the Assignment Editor for BaseballDigest.com and the founder of Ivie League Productions.
His love of the game comes second to very few things in his life.
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During the overrun period of I-70 Baseball Radio Monday, the first of many announcements for 2011 was made concerning the network of sites, broadcasts, and voices that will be featured going forward.

The first part of this announcement was the creation of Ivie League Productions, a parent company that will oversee the production of multiple sites and the various outlets that those sites will provide.

Along those lines, I-70 Baseball is being billed as the flagship enterprise of this new company, providing a solid footprint of hos things can be done successfully when providing this coverage. I-70 will continue to bring fans a one hour radio show every week, new articles about the Cardinals and Royals on a daily basis, and social media outreaches through Facebook and Twitter on a daily basis. The same great coverage our fans have come to expect will continue to be present throughout 2011.

I-70 Baseball and Ivie League Productions are proud to announce the newest member of the family, Battle Of Ohio Baseball. The team of writers at Battle Of Ohio Baseball will provide daily insight into the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians. The site will launch during Spring Training 2011 and will be supported by a separate, hour long radio show to be featured under the Ivie League Productions network on Blog Talk Radio. Battle Of Ohio Baseball is the latest Official Baseball Digest website set to launch.

All of us at I-70 Baseball look forward to working with the new team at Battle Of Ohio Baseball in 2011 and beyond.

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