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If you are making plans to visit Indiana this summer, cross Kokomo off your list. The Jackrabbits announced on social media that they will sit out the 2025 season.
The Kokomo Jackrabbits are taking the 2025 season off. The Northwoods League club announced on social media that “due to various unforeseen circumstances” the team would be unable to compete this summer.
The decision comes less than three months after a lawsuit between the city and club ownership. The city of Kokomo and Kokomo Baseball LLC, the limited liability company ROC Venture, claimed that it did not renew the lease of the stadium as recognized.
According to an article in the Kokomo Tribune, The lease, according to the city’s complaint filed with Howard County Circuit Court, requires the owners of the Jackrabbits to give the city written notice no later than 90 days before the agreement ends if it wants to renew for another five years.
The Jackrabbits claimed it had a verbal agreement for the next five years during a virtual meeting on May 17; however, the city argues that no written notice was given last season. Because of that, the team had to vacate Kokomo Municipal Stadium by September 30, when the lease expired. Jackrabbits management added.
“While this necessarily doesn’t mean the end of the Jackrabbits, however as it stands, the future holds more questions than answers right now.”
The Jackrabbits were founded in 2014 as members of the Prospect League but moved to the Northwoods League in 2019. It marked the first time an organized summer baseball team was in town in 53 years since the Midwest League’s Kokomo Dodgers.
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