A rare Elmira, New York minor league baseball team NOT known as the Pioneers. The 1971 Elmira Royals won the Eastern League title in their only season of competition under the Royals name. But the team was remarkably unproductive for a Class AA farm team. Not a single member of the 1971 Elmira Royals would appear in the Majors beyond 1973.
Omaha, Nebraska has hosted the top farm club of the Kansas City Royals since the Major League club’s inception in 1969. Initially known as the Omaha Royals, the Class AAA club won four league championships of the American Association, including back-to-back titles in their first two seasons in 1969 and 1970. The Royals survived the closure of the American Association, joining the Pacific Coast League in 1998. From 1999 until 2001, the team was briefly known as the “Golden Spikes” before returning to the Royals nickname. In 2011, the club re-branded as the Omaha Storm Chasers while simultaneously moving into the new $36M Werner Park.
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