Williamsport Crosscutters

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Williamsport Crosscutters
League	New York-Penn League
Division	Pinckney Division
Year founded	1993
Major League affiliation	Philadelphia Phillies
Home ballpark	Bowman Field
Previous home ballparks
City	Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Current uniform colors	maroon, black
Previous uniform colors	red, black
Logo design	The wordmark "Crosscutters" in maroon outlined in black. A lumberjack with a baseball bat centered over the wordmark with a saw wrapping itself around the rest of the logo
Division titles
League titles	2001, 2003
Manager	Greg Legg
Owner

The Williamsport Crosscutters are a Class A minor league baseball team based in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in the United States. They are a Philadelphia Phillies affiliate in the short-season New York - Penn League, playing their home games at Bowman Field.

Bowman Field, home of the Crosscutters, is the second oldest minor league field in the U.S.

Through 1993, the club was the Geneva Cubs, playing at Geneva, New York. For the 1994 season, the club moved to Williamsport, occupying an historic facility that had not been used for professional baseball for the previous two seasons. The club became known as the Williamsport Cubs, retaining that name through 1998. In 1999, the team switched affiliations from the Chicago Cubs to the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the team name became the Crosscutters. At the end of the 2006 season, it was announced that the team would once again be switching affiliations to the Philadelphia Phillies, but retaining the same name.[1]

The Crosscutters earned a share of the league championship in 2001, when, after losing the opening game of the championship series to the Brooklyn Cyclones, the remainder of the series was canceled in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Crosscutters again made the playoffs in 2002 but were eliminated in the first round. In 2003, they won the league title, defeating Brooklyn 2 games to 0 in the final.

The name "Crosscutters" reflects the logging heritage of Williamsport. The city is on the West Branch Susquehanna River, and logging barons once lived in mansions along Fourth Street, which became known as "Millionaires' Row". To this day, sports teams at Williamsport Area High School are known as the Millionaires.

[edit] External links

• Williamsport Crosscutters (official site)
• Official New York - Penn League Website
• Photographs of Historic Bowman Field, home of the Williamsport Crosscutters - Rochester Area Ballparks