MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com – Manchester, NH- New Hampshire Fisher Cats second baseman Scott Campbell and former Fisher Cats outfielder Travis Snider have both been named to the 2008 Eastern League All-Star Team, the league announced today.  Campbell makes the team as the EL's top second baseman, and Snider was named the league's All-Star designated hitter, as voted on by respective Eastern League team managers and coaching staffs, sportswriters, radio and television broadcast personnel and other members of the media.
 
Campbell, 23, leads the Fisher Cats and ranks second in the Eastern League with a .321 batting average.  He ranks fourth in the league in on-base percentage (.415) and 10th in runs (67). The Auckland, New Zealand native also leads New Hampshire in hits (121) and walks (60).  Campbell became the first native New Zealander ever drafted when the Toronto Blue Jays took him out of Gonzaga in the 10th round of the 2006 draft.  Playing in his first season at the Double-A level, Campbell started for the World Team at the XM Satellite Radio All-Star Futures Game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, July 12 and played for the Northern Division team in the 2008 Northeast Delta Dental Eastern League All-Star Game at Merchantsauto.com Stadium on Wednesday, July 16.
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Snider, 20, was promoted to Triple-A Syracuse on August 7 after batting .262 with a team-leading 17 home runs and 67 RBI in 98 games for the Fisher Cats.  Two weeks later, the youngest player in Fisher Cats' history still leads the club in HR and RBI.  Snider, rated the Toronto Blue Jays' number-one prospect by Baseball America this year, was promoted to New Hampshire from Advanced-A Dunedin on April 21.  The Everett, WA native reached base safely in a team-best 21 consecutive games between June 2 and June 27, put together a Fisher Cats' season-high 14-game hitting streak from June 5 to June 21 and clubbed eight home runs in May, one shy of a team record. 

Snider, the Blue Jays' first round draft pick in 2006, was a member of the Northern Division team in the 2008 Northeast Delta Dental Eastern League All-Star Game at Merchantsauto.com Stadium on Wednesday, July 16.  He outslugged Bowie Baysox outfielder Lou Montanez that night to win the Irving Oil Home Run Derby before a stadium-record crowd of 8,762.

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