John Cordero (11) and Easton Grumdahl (17), of Duluth Marshall, celebrate a run scored by Cordero in the second inning against Proctor High School at Siebert Field in Minneapolis, Monday, May 5, 2025. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Baseball players in northeast Minnesota face special challenges, starting with the inclement weather in the spring that leads to a lack of opportunity all year long.

This hasn’t deterred the region from developing its most talented and deepest group of high school boys of the summer in 2025.

The region is reaping the benefits of the Minnesota Expos Baseball club team formed 11 years ago in Duluth. A nonprofit organization, it was founded by Seth Marsolek and Tom Berrisford, parents of students at Marshall School — a K-12 private college preparatory school in Duluth — when their sons were 8 and 7 years old in 2014.

Four players associated with the program are headed to Division I colleges, another is bound for one of the top Division II schools in the nation and a sixth is one of the top hockey players in the state and has elected to go that route instead.

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