The Tri-State Tomahawks were a professional minor league baseball team located in the Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland, formerly known as Poage Settlement, is a city in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States, nestled along the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 21,981 at the 2000 census. Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of the 2000 census, the...

 metro area. They were an original member of the independent Frontier League

Frontier League

The Frontier League, based in Sauget, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States, Western Pennsylvania, and Southern Ontario. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either...

 in 1993, folding 11 games into the season due to lackluster attendance, often contributed to the untested nature of independent leagues, and nearby competition from teams such as Huntington

Huntington

- People :* Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon* Huntington Hartford, A&P supermarket heir* Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor* Arabella Huntington, wife of Collis Potter Huntington* Archer M. Huntington, scholar of Hispanic Studies...

, and the West Virginia Coal Sox

West Virginia Coal Sox

The West Virginia Coal Sox were a professional minor league baseball team located in West Virginia on the Kentucky border. They were an original member of the independent Frontier League. The team folded 10 games into their first season in 1993....

. The lack of attendance at the games was partly due to heavy rainstorms over a period of nearly a week, and the team's lack of capital could not sustain the effects of the heavy rains.