Hamilton Thunderbirds
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| Hamilton Thunderbirds Founded in [[ in baseball|]] Hamilton, Ontario |
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| Owner(s)/Operated By: Drew Brady Bob Mackie Jerry Santucci Dennis Lesmeister |
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| Website: www.hamiltonthunderbirds.org/ | |||
The Hamilton Thunderbirds are an independent, minor league baseball team of the, semi-pro, Intercounty Baseball League based in Hamilton, Ontario. They play their home games at Bernie Arbour Memorial Stadium.
They were known as the Hamilton Cardinals for many years. Starting in the 2005 the team changed its name to the Hamilton Thunderbirds. The name change came to be when Mel Oswald, CEO of the Canadian Thunderbirds Elite Baseball Club, bought the Hamilton Cardinals on January 1, 2005. The "new" Thunderbirds played their first game with the new name on May 8, 2005, defeating the Stratford Storm 14-7.
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The Hamilton Cardinals had played 1,490 games with a record of 525 wins and 965 losses before becoming the Thunderbirds, winning the Intercounty title in 1978.
