The Florence Freedom ( including years as Erie and Johnstown ) and the Rockford RiverHawks ( including years as Portsmouth and Springfield ) are currently tied for the most league championships with each franchise winning three.

The Rockford RiverHawks are a professional baseball team based in the Rockford, Illinois, suburb of Loves Park, in the United States.

From 2002 to 2005, the RiverHawks ' home field was Marinelli Field in Rockford, Illinois.

The RiverHawks franchise was relocated from Springfield, Illinois, where they were known as the Springfield Capitals, to Rockford in time for the 2002 season.

In 2010 an eighth team was added when the Rockford RiverHawks moved from the Frontier League.

* 2010-Jason James, ( Rockford RiverHawks )

The franchise is currently tied with the Rockford RiverHawks ( including years as Portsmouth and Springfield ) for most total league championships, with three each.

Because the Milwaukee Brewers withdrew their support due to the lack of a new stadium, efforts are underway to build one similar to facilities used by the Rockford RiverHawks or the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.

He also played in the Northern League for the Gary SouthShore RailCats in 2010 and Rockford RiverHawks in 2011, and is currently a free agent.

He played for the Rockford RiverHawks in the Northern League in 2010.

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The Rockford RiverHawks, Schaumburg Flyers, Joliet Jackhammers, and Lake County Fielders plan on leaving the Northern League and join the GBL for 2011 with the new format.

* Fabian Gomez, Rockford RiverHawks, Independent baseball, 2006

* Rockford RiverHawks ( 2002 – 2005 )

The City of Wilmington has 9 Historic Districts, including the Baynard Boulevard, Kentmere Parkway, Rockford Park, Cool Spring / Tilton Park, the tri-part sections of the Eastside, St. Marys and Old Swedes Church, Quaker Hill, Delaware Avenue, Trinity Vicinity, and Upper / Lower Market Street.

By the time she had graduated from Rockford Seminary, she knew the Bible and especially the New Testament, thoroughly, having studied it throughout her young life, including in college courses.

: Main article: List of Rockford Files episodes ( including TV movies )

Cannell created or co-created nearly 40 television series, mostly crime dramas, including The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Wiseguy, 21 Jump Street, Silk Stalkings, and The Commish.

He also guest-starred in a number of series during the 1970s including The Rockford Files, The Incredible Hulk ( in an October 1978 episode called " Ricky "), The Lost Saucer, Starsky and Hutch, Lou Grant ( TV series ), Kojak, The Bionic Woman, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries.

Brown also appeared in other prime-time series including The Rockford Files, Kojak, Frasier, Smallville, Touched by an Angel, ER, and Ed.

On television, Rifkin has appeared in numerous made-for-television movies and miniseries, had regular roles on The Rockford Files, One Day at a Time, Husbands, Wives & Lovers, The Trials of Rosie O ' Neill, and Alias, and has made guest appearances on a number of series, including Sex and the City, ER Season 2 ( 1995 ) as Doctor Carl Vucelich: Episodes 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 & 22., Law & Order, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, in Falcon Crest as Dr. Hal Lantry in the 3rd season ( 1983 ), Soap, Hill Street Blues, and The Outer Limits, for which he received a CableACE nomination.

A familiar character actor, he has appeared as a guest star on numerous TV comedies and dramas, including Soap, The Rockford Files, Quincy, M. E., and many others.

He has guest appeared on other television shows, including Lou Grant, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Alice, Newhart, Murder, She Wrote and Married ... with Children, and has also acted in the mini-series Roots: The Next Generations and the Robert De Niro / Cuba Gooding Jr. film Men of Honor.

Pricope was Principal Cello with the Chicago Civic Orchestra ( training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony ), and has also served as guest principal cello for several American orchestras, including Green Bay Symphony, Rockford Symphony and Southwest Michigan Symphony.

* Reza Badiyi, well known for directing episodes of many popular ( and quite distinct ) American television series, including Get Smart, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, The Incredible Hulk, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky and Hutch, The Rockford Files and Police Squad, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Falcon Crest, Cagney and Lacey, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( the episode " Out of Mind, Out of Sight "), Nikita, Sliders and Baywatch, amongst others.

Roberts guest starred in TV shows such as The Girl from U. N. C. L. E., The Virginian, The Big Valley, Lancer, Mission: Impossible, Marcus Welby, M. D., The Wild Wild West, Ironside, The Rockford Files, Gunsmoke, Mannix, Vega $, The Odd Couple, Hawaii Five-O, The Love Boat, The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries, San Francisco International, Nakia, Night Gallery, The Bold Ones, The Quest, Police Story, Most Wanted, Westside Medical, Man From Atlantis, Jigsaw John, Sixth Sense, Quincy, M. E, Feather and Father Gang, Hawkins, Men from Shiloh, Perry Mason, Wide World of Mystery, Six Million Dollar Man, and appeared in mini-series, including Captain and the Kings, Centennial, Hotel, The Immigrants, and Around the World in Eighty Days.

Lynn Martin taught in the Rockford Public Schools prior to and including her time as a local representative.

He played numerous characters on different TV series including The Wild Wild West, The Rockford Files, Columbo, Ellery Queen, Kojak, Petrocelli, Charlie's Angels and Hawaii Five-O.

During the 1970s Fabares appeared on several television series, including Love, American Style, The Rockford Files, The Interns, Mannix and Fantasy Island.

As of 2000, the company employs 400 + people at " six " manufacturing locations, including one manufacturing bolts made using a newer method, cold heading, in Rockford, Illinois, an operation in West Hartford, Connecticut, and another in Malaysia, etc.

Rockford had faced significant financial hardship during the 1871 season, including travel cost, and did not make a profit.

Noah Beery, Jr. appeared in dozens of films, including a large early role as John Wayne's action partner in 1934's The Trail Beyond ( Wayne was 27 years old and Beery was 21 ), 20 Mule Team with his uncle, and Red River with Wayne, but is best known for his role as Joseph " Rocky " Rockford, the father of Jim Rockford, James Garner's character on the popular television series The Rockford Files ( 1974 – 1980 ).

The first important settler of what would become the city of Rockford was Smith Lapham, who had come to Kent County in 1843 after living in Washtenaw County for 18 years.

Anthony Shane, a French-Indian and his wife lived for years in a double-log cabin, just north of the town now named Rockford.

Margolin said of his longtime colleague that despite Garner's health problems in the later years of The Rockford Files, he would often work long shifts, unusual for a starring actor, staying to do off-camera lines with other actors, doing his own stunts despite his knee problems.

Miller spent four years in Quincy, returning to Rockford in 1896 to join Harry M. Johnson in ownership of the Rockford Republic.

He attended high school in Rockford, Ill, and spent two years at Berklee College of Music.

Elling attended elementary school at St. Paul Lutheran School in Rockford, and throughout his early years, he sang in choirs and played violin, French horn, piano, and drums.

Chase has worked in television for more than 30 years ; he has produced and written for such shows as The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure.

He also worked as a writer while on The Rockford Files — a show which he worked on in various capacities for more than four years.

Key to the plan was an agreement with the Chicago Blackhawks to put an American Hockey League ( AHL ) team in Rockford for the next 10 years.

Mosk was born in San Antonio, Texas, but his parents moved when he was three years old, and he grew up in Rockford, Illinois.

The school has gained attention in recent years due to its struggling football team, which once lost a game to Rockford College who ran the score up with first string guys in the fourth quarter, by a score of 105 to 0, as chronicled in the 2005 book Keeping the Faith by Shawn Fury.

Egbert or " Bert " as he was called probably attended Centenary School in Saverton Township sometime between the time after his father's death in 1885 in Rockford, IL and his teenage years.

This student arrangement was in place for the 2007-08 through 2010-11 school years ; however, beginning with the current 2011-12 school year, freshman are now housed with the rest of the student body at the traditional Auburn High School building due to school board decisions to consolidate Rockford middle school facilities.

The history of Beyer Stadium will be celebrated as Rockford ’ s “ field of dreams ” for over 70 years, and members of the Rockford Peaches women ’ s baseball team will be honored, along with other ladies who played in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.