Brockton Rox Brockton Rox The Brockton Rox are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States. Formerly a professional baseball franchise, the Rox were a member of the independent Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, from the 2003 through 2011 seasons. The Rox play their home games at Campanelli Stadium. The team's name is a derivative of the nearby Boston Red Sox of the American League and a tribute to the boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, both from Brockton. In 2012, the Rox announced that they were going to join the Futures Collegiate Baseball League and leave the
Boxer (dog) breeds. "Bier" (beer) probably refers to the "Biergarten", the typical Munich beergarden, an open-air restaurant where people used to take their dogs along. The nickname "Deutscher Boxer" was derived from "bierboxer" and Boxer could also be a corruption of the former or a contraction of the latter. A passage from the book "The Complete Boxer" by Milo G Denlinger states: "Boxer" is also the name of a dog owned by "John Peerybingle", the main character in the best-selling 1845 book "The Cricket on the Hearth" by Charles Dickens, which is evidence that "Boxer" was commonly used as a dog name