Tag: Larry Schmittou

The Greensboro Hornets were a popular Class A minor league baseball team that played from 1979 through 1993. The Hornets led the Western Carolinas League and its successor, the South Atlantic League, in attendance for fourteen consecutive seasons between 1979 and 1992. While serving as a New York Yankees farm team during the early 1980’s, the Hornets would three consecutive South Atlantic League championships in 1980, 1981 and 1982. The franchise remains in Greensboro to this day, but gave up the Hornets name in favor of the ‘Bats’ in 1994 and changed names again in 2005, becoming the ‘Grasshoppers’.