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The Akron Aeros are a minor league baseball team based in Akron, Ohio, USA. The team, which plays in the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians major-league club. The Aeros play in Canal Park, located in downtown Akron, which seats 9,097 fans.

The nickname "Aeros" refers Akron Aeros Tickets to Ohio's history of aerospace research including being the home state of the Wright Brothers and astronaut Neil Armstrong. Akron is also home to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

The Aeros are managed by Tim Bogar, who was named the 2006 Eastern League manager of the year.

The franchise began play in 1980 in Lynn, Massachusetts, where it was named the Lynn Sailors. After four seasons there, owner Mike Agganis moved the team northward to Burlington, Vermont. From 1984 through 1987, the Vermont Reds were the affiliate of Cincinnati's major-league club, and in 1988, they became the Vermont Mariners for one year when Seattle picked up the franchise. During that time, the team made the playoffs every year, and won three straight Eastern League titles from 1984 to 1986.

In 1989, the team moved to Canton, Ohio, becoming the Indians' affiliate, and played eight seasons at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium as the Canton-Akron Indians, one Akron Aeros Akron Aeros Tickets Tickets of many entities (another example is the Akron-Canton Regional Airport) to use the names of both cities. The "Little Indians" made another five straight playoff appearances from 1989 to 1993, and won the regular-season title in 1992. However, they were never successful at bringing home a league championship trophy (see Playoffs section below).

On November 22, 1994, Agganis signed a lease agreement with the city of Akron to move the club to that city. It took another two years to build the new Canal Park, which included selection of architects, land acquisition, and Akron Aeros Tickets demolition of the Anthony Wayne Hotel which had stood on the new stadium site. Groundbreaking was held on January 5, 1996, and the stadium was completed in February 1997. Meantime, the new "Aeros" nickname had been chosen in November 1996 over the other choices, "Spirit" and "Quest", and replacing a prior working nickname, the "Akron Blast".

In their first three seasons in Canal Park, the Aeros led all of double-A in attendance, becoming the first team at that level to draw a half-million fans in a single season. They continue to lead the Eastern League and place highly in minor-league baseball every year.

In the 1998 season, the Aeros put together a Akron Aeros Tickets 30-game "worst-to-first" turnaround; after finishing the prior year 34½ games back, they proceeded to win the Southern Division that season by 8½ games. However, after losing in the playoffs that year, it would be three more years until the Aeros Tickets found their way back to the posteason. In 2002, the team posted a 93-48 record, the third-highest win total in the Eastern League in 50 years. They built on that success and finally won two league championships (their first since moving to Ohio) in 2003 and 2005. In 2006 the Aeros again posted the best regular-season record in the league, but lost the playoff title to Portland Akron Aeros Tickets after taking the series to a deciding fifth game.