Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees

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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees
League International League
Division North
Year founded 1989
Major League affiliation New York Yankees
Home ballpark PNC Field
Previous home ballparks
City Moosic, Pennsylvania
Current uniform colors Navy Blue, Grey, White
Previous uniform colors Red, Blue, White
Logo design Baseball bat and Uncle Sam hat with the "Yankees" wordmark centered over it in navy blue. Inside the wordmark itself are the words "Scranton/Wilkes-Barre."
Division titles
League titles
Manager Dave Miley
Owner Lackawanna County and Luzerne County

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees are the Class-AAA Minor League Baseball affiliate of the New York Yankees. The Yankees play at PNC Field (formerly Lackawanna County Stadium), located in Moosic, Pennsylvania, which is part of the metropolitan area of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The team is owned jointly by Lackawanna County and Luzerne County[1], and operated by Mandalay Sports Entertainment. It is part of the International League's North Division.

From 1989 until 2006, the team was known as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, and was affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies as their top minor league farm team. After the 2006 season, the Ottawa Lynx signed a PDC (Player Development Contract) with the Phillies in anticipation of their move to Allentown for the 2008 season. (They will play 2007 in Ottawa while waiting for the new Coca-Cola Park, which is being built on the former Agere site.)

In April 2006, the team unveiled a renovated clubhouse, which was considered to be parallel in quality to major league clubhouses.

On September 21, 2006, the Red Barons announced a two-year affiliation agreement with the New York Yankees, becoming the Yankees' third AAA farm club since 1979.([2]). The Red Barons sold 47,000 tickets on the day of the announcement.([3])

While Lackawanna County retains ownership, the club will be managed by Mandalay Sports Entertainment, which also runs several other Minor League teams, including the Yankees' short season Class-A team, the Staten Island Yankees. In the management deal Mandalay has the option of purchasing the team for between $13 million and $16.4 million, depending on the timing of the purchase. There is also some concern that the team could be moved out of Northeastern Pennsylvania unless a new stadium is built.([4])

On December 12, 2006, the team officially changed its nickname to Yankees, and unveiled new team logos and uniforms.([5]) The SWB Yankees' logo is almost identical to Staten Island's, with the exception of the different city names.

The Red Barons/Yankees' radio play-by-play announcer, Kent Westling, has been with the team since its inception in 1989. While he has cut back his schedule in recent years, Westling -- a former local television sportscaster who once worked on telecasts of St. Louis Blues hockey team -- has worked all but few dozen games, putting him behind the microphone for more than 2,000 games. Bill Savage, a sports writer for The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, covered the team home and away for its first six seasons, and during that stretch, from 1989 to 1994, missed only about 10 of the team's games.

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[edit] International League Franchise History

Prior to playing in Scranton, the team was known as the Charleston Charlies from 1971-1983, who won the IL title in 1977 after losing to Pawtucket in 1973. The Charlies moved from West Virginia to Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and became the Maine Guides. There they again lost the IL title to the Pawtucket Red Sox in 1984. In 1989, they moved to their current home in Pennsylvania.

[edit] Titles as the Red Barons

The Red Barons never won the Governors' Cup, the championship of the IL, but have played in the championship series 3 times.

As the Charleston Charlies, they won the Governor's Cup once, and played in the championship series 2 times.

As the Maine Guides, they played in the championship series once.

[edit] Current Roster

As of April 5, 2007

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Coaches

[edit] Notable Red Barons Alumni

[edit] Trivia

  • On the NBC sitcom The Office, which takes place in Scranton (although filmed in California), the character Ryan Howard, played by actor B.J. Novak, is named after Phillies first baseman and 2006 NL MVP Ryan Howard, who was playing for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre when production for the series started in 2004.

[edit] Logo Gallery

Team Logo (Present)

Cap Logo (Present)

SWB Logo (Interim Logo 9/11/2006-12/12/2006)

Main Logo 1997-2006

Main Logo 1989-1996

SWB Logo Red on Blue (Phillies Era)

SWB Logo Blue on Red (Phillies Era)

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