The Glens Falls Redbirds were a minor league baseball team that played in the New York–Penn League for the 1993 season only and played their home games at East Field located in Glens Falls, New York . The Redbirds were affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals .
7-618: The Redbirds were founded in 1981 as the Erie Cardinals which were also a Cardinals' affiliate which played at Ainsworth Field in Erie, Pennsylvania from 1981–1987. The Erie Cardinals were then relocated to Hamilton, Ontario to become the Hamilton Redbirds . The team remained as a Cardinals' affiliate. The team then played at Bernie Arbour Memorial Stadium in the city of Hamilton from 1988–1992 and then relocated again to
14-666: A baseball team in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Erie Cardinals The Erie Sailors was the primary name of several minor league baseball teams that played in Erie, Pennsylvania between 1906 and 1994. Several unrelated teams used the Erie Sailors name in the Interstate League (1906–1907, 1913, 1916), the Ohio–Pennsylvania League (1908–1911), and
21-680: The Baltimore Orioles ended their affiliation with the team (then known as the Erie Orioles ), they reclaimed the Sailors name and operated as an unaffiliated minor league team for two years before becoming the Florida Marlins ' first farm team in 1992 and a Texas Rangers affiliate in 1993. Because of the deteriorating condition of Ainsworth Field, the team moved after the 1993 season to Fishkill, New York and then became
28-671: The Central League (1912, 1915, 1928–30, 1932). During these years, the Erie Sailors played in the Middle Atlantic League from 1938–1939, 1941–1942, and 1946–1951; the Pennsylvania–Ontario–New York League (PONY League) from 1944–1945 and 1954–1956; and the PONY's successor New York – Penn League from 1957–1963. Several times during this period,
35-681: The Hudson Valley Renegades . In 1994, the Sailors were a team in the independent Frontier League , winning the league championship in their only year of existence as a member of the Frontier League. In 1995, the Erie SeaWolves moved to town, displacing the Sailors, forcing the franchise to move to Johnstown, Pennsylvania as the Johnstown Steal/Johnnies and then to Florence, Kentucky as
42-854: The city of Glens Falls, retaining the Redbirds name and Cardinals affiliation. The team relocated again to Skylands Park located in Augusta, New Jersey in Sussex County for the 1994 season to become the New Jersey Cardinals . Today, the team is now known as the State College Spikes and are now playing at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park located in University Park, Pennsylvania , located right outside of State College, Pennsylvania . This article about
49-627: The team was also called the Erie Senators , after its major league affiliate, the Washington Senators . The Sailors won league championship in 1957. The Sailors won the regular season by nine games in 1951. They then lost the league championship series to the Niagara Falls Citizens , four games to two. From 1948 onward, this team (and all subsequent Sailors teams) played at Ainsworth Field . In 1990, after
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