Lancaster Stormers
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The Lancaster Stormers (formerly known as the Lancaster Barnstormers) is an American professional baseball team based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It is a member of the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, a "partner league" of Major League Baseball.[1][2] The Stormers has played its home games at Clipper Magazine Stadium in the city's Northwest Corridor since 2005 when the stadium was completed.
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League | Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (North Division) | ||||
Location | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | ||||
Ballpark | Clipper Magazine Stadium | ||||
Founded | 2003 | ||||
League championships | (4) 2006, 2014, 2022, 2023 | ||||
Division championships | (5) 2006, 2012, 2014, 2022, 2023 | ||||
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Colors | Red, black, gold, white | ||||
Mascot | Cylo | ||||
Retired numbers | 42 | ||||
Ownership | Lancaster Baseball, LLC | ||||
Manager | Ross Peeples | ||||
General Manager | Michael Reynolds | ||||
Media | LNP | ||||
Website | lancasterstormers |
The team's name, selected in a fan ballot,[3] refers to the tradition of "barnstorming," which means to travel around an area appearing in exhibition sports events, especially baseball games.[4] The term was used to describe Lancaster's baseball teams as early as 1906 when the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer reported, "There was a crowd of between seven and eight hundred persons out on Friday to see the Lancaster barnstormers play the Philadelphia Giants."[5] Their original primary logo incorporated the colors red, navy blue, and khaki previously used by the Lancaster Red Roses of affiliated Minor League Baseball from 1940 to 1961.[6] The name and logo also allude to Lancaster's Pennsylvania Dutch agricultural heritage.