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Scranton Wilkes Barre Yankees
Scranton is the Class-AAA minor league baseball affiliate of the New York Yankees. The PNC Field located in Moosic, Pennsylvania, is where the Yankees usually play. The place is part of the metropolitan area of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Managed by Mandalay Sports Entertainment, the club has a dual ownership by Lackawanna County and Luzerne County. In addition to running the Yankees' short season Class-A team, the Staten Island Yankees, MSE also runs several other Minor League teams.
The team was formed in 1937 as the Jersey City Giants, the top farm club of the New York Giants. It remained there till 1950. Later it was moved to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. After four seasons in Ottawa as the Ottawa Giants, the struggling franchise claimed the Columbus, Ohio territory joining the International League as the Columbus Jets in 1955. There were serious stadium problems beginning from the year of 1970 season, which had caused the Jets to relocate to Charleston.
The Charlies won the franchise's only IL title in the year of 1973; they had defeated the Pawtucket Red Sox. The team had moved from West Virginia to Old Orchard Beach, Maine prior to the 1984 season, and became the Maine Guides. In their first season as the Guides, the team again lost the IL title to the PawSox. The franchise had moved to their current home in Pennsylvania in the year of 1989.
The team was known as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons from 1989 until 2006 , and it was affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies as their top minor league farm team. After the 2006 season, the Ottawa Lynx signed a Player Development Contract with the Phillies in anticipation of their move to Allentown's new Coca-Cola Park for the 2008 season. In April 2006, the team unveiled a renovated clubhouse, which is considered to be similar in quality to major league clubhouses.
On September 21, 2006, the Red Barons announced a two-year affiliation agreement with the New York Yankees, ending the Yankees' 28-year relationship with the Columbus Clippers. The Red Barons sold 47,000 tickets on the day of the announcement. On December 12, 2006, the team officially changed its nickname to the Yankees, and unveiled new team logos and uniforms.
The SWB Yankees' logo is almost identical to Staten Island's; with the exception of the different city namesThe team's two home uniforms are white with navy blue pinstripes, mirroring those of the parent club. The primary home jersey features the cap logo on the left chest, while the alternate home jersey features the Yankees wordmark across the chest.] The home cap is navy blue. There is also an alternate cap, which is navy blue and features the scripted Y from the home cap, but without the bat and Uncle Sam hat.
The team's road uniforms are grey with navy blue and white trim, with the Yankees wordmark across the chest. The team sometimes wears a navy blue batting practice jersey in place of the standard grey jersey. The road cap is gray, with a navy blue bill.
The team's radio play-by-play announcer, Kent Westling, had been with the franchise since it moved to Pennsylvania in 1989. While he cut back his schedule in later years, Westling, a former local television sportscaster who once worked on telecasts of St. Louis Blues hockey team, had been behind the microphone for more than 2,000 games until announcing his resignation after the 2007 season.
