The Prince William Yankees were a two-year entry in Minor League Baseball’s Carolina League during the summers of 1987 and 1988. Under the ultimately mistaken belief that the Yankees would pull their affiliation at the close of the 1988 season, the team held a fan contest to rename the team and became the Prince William Cannons in 1989. (The Yanks would stay on as the Cannons’ parent club through 1993).
This Carolina League baseball team, based in Woodbridge, Virginia, served as a Class A farm club of the Pittsburgh Pirates for three summers from 1984 to 1986. Future superstars Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonilla came up through Prince William’s Davis For Park Stadium during the Pirates era. In 1987, the New York Yankees replaced Pittsburgh as Prince William’s parent club with a corresponding name change. The Carolina League franchise remained in Woodbridge through several more name changes over the decades, finally moving away to Fredericksburg in 2020.
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