Tombstone
Born: 1988 – Affiliation change from Lynchburg Mets
Re-Branded: November 1994 (Lynchburg Hillcats)
First Game:
Last Game:
Carolina League Championships: None
Stadium
City Stadium
Opened: 1939
Marketing
Television:
- 1993: Lynchburg Cablevision Community Channel 6
Radio:
- 1993: WLLL (930 AM)
Radio Broadcasters:
- 1988: ? & Shawn Holliday
- 1989 – 1994: Shawn Holliday
Ownership & Affiliation
Owners: Lynchburg Baseball Corp. (Calvin Falwell, et al.)
Major League Affiliation: Boston Red Sox
Attendance
Lynchburg ranked last (8th) in the Carolina League in attendance in each of the city’s final two seasons as a Red Sox farm club in 1993 and 1994.
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Sources:
- Source: The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (1st ed.), Lloyd Johnson & Miles Wolff, 1993 (1988-1992 figures)
- Baseball America’s 1994 & 1995 Almanacs (1993-1994 figures)
Background
Lynchburg enjoyed a seven-year run as a High Class A farm club of the Boston Red Sox in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Lynchburg appeared in the Carolina League championship series three times during the Red Sox era, but lost each time. They fell to the Kinston Indians in 1988 and 1991 and to the Peninsula Pilots in 1992.
Lynchburg produced a handful of players who went onto significant Major League success in Boston and elsewhere, including:
- Third Baseman Scott Cooper (Lynchburg ’88)
- Shortstop Tim Naehring (Lynchburg ’89)
- Outfielder Phil Plantier (Lynchburg ’89)
- Shortstop John Valentin (Lynchburg ’89)
- Pitcher Aaron Sele (Lynchburg ’92)
- Outfielder Trot Nixon (Lynchburg ’94)
Red Sox to Hillcats
After the 1994 season, the Pittsburgh Pirates replaced Boston as Lynchburg’s parent club. Rather than become the Lynchburg Pirates, the club re-branded itself as the Lynchburg Hillcats in November 1994.
Lynchburg Red Sox Shop
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