Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barrons Tickets

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees are the Class-AAA Minor League Baseball affiliate of the New York Yankees playing in the International League. The Yankees play at Lackawanna County Stadium, located in Moosic, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barrons Tickets Pennsylvania which is part of the metropolitan area Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barrons Tickets of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The team is owned by the Lackawanna County.

From 1989 until 2006, the team was known as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, and were affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies as their top minor league farm team. At the end of the 2006 season, the Phillies parted ways with their AAA affiliate of the past 18 seasons. The Ottawa Lynx signed a PDC Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barrons Tickets (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 Lehigh County Ballpark, 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.

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.

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