I always wondered about independent baseball teams. What does that even mean, independent? Who goes to these games? Who plays in these games? Is it sort of a league that you pay to join? It's always been a mystery to me. With the excuse of Jose Canseco coming to play for a team in Pittsburg that I never knew existed, I set to find out.
Aside from the occasional "plucked out of independent ball" or former MLB star trying to get his groove back, or Rickey Henderson hanging on to the game, we never, ever hear about independent baseball.