The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a Minor League Baseball team based in

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. They are members of the

South Atlantic League The South Atlantic League, often informally called the Sally League, is a Minor League Baseball league with teams predominantly in states along the Atlantic coast of the United States from New York to Georgia. A Class A league for most of its ...

and are the

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affiliate of the

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. They play their home games at

First National Bank Field First National Bank Field is a Minor League Baseball baseball park, park located in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The home of the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the High-A East, it opened on April 3, 2005. The park is on the block bounded by Be ...

, which opened in 2005 and seats 7,499 fans. The team's logo was changed to a Grasshopper prior to the inaugural season at the new ballpark. Fans selected the name "Guilford" (Greensboro's county's name) for the team's mascot, a giant grasshopper. Prior to that, all home games for the Hornets and Bats were held at

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, just northeast of downtown Greensboro.

History

Greensboro has fielded professional teams since the early 1900s, in several different leagues. Early on, the nickname Greensboro Patriots was applied to those teams, in reference to the

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. There were a few false starts. In 1902 local cotton broker Leon J. Brandt fielded a Greensboro team in the

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, but the league failed in mid-season. The Virginia-North Carolina League of 1905 included the Greensboro Framers franchise, also owned by Brandt. The league completed its season but disbanded thereafter. The Greensboro Patriots joined the

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as charter members in 1908 and began a run of 10 straight seasons in pro ball. The league was reorganized as the North Carolina Association for 1913 and renamed itself the

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in 1916. The league played one more season and then disbanded after 1917. By then, America's involvement in World War I was well under way, and many minor leagues folded after 1917. With peacetime, interest in professional baseball and the minor leagues revived. The Greensboro Patriots were revived as well, joining the newly formed

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in 1920, winning its inaugural championship. The Patriots also won the league title in 1926. In 1930, the club began a five-year affiliation with the

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. After the Cardinals contract expired, the franchise transferred to

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in 1935. Five years later, minor league ball returned to Greensboro for a couple of years, with another Piedmont League entry called the Greensboro Red Sox, which played during 1941–1942. After the Piedmont League years, another Greensboro team operated in the

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during 1945–1968. The club was known variously as the Patriots (1945–1951), the Greensboro Pirates (1952–1954), the Patriots again (1955–1957), the Greensboro Yankees (1958–67), and the Patriots once again (1968). Following the 1968 season, Greensboro dropped out of professional ball for the next ten years, during a time when minor league baseball had lost popularity. That situation would start to change for the better in the late 1970s, and Greensboro would benefit from it. The minors returned to Greensboro in 1979, with a new entry in the

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. The WCL renamed itself as the South Atlantic League the next year, reviving the name once used by the Southern League. Abandoning the old nickname of "Patriots", which by then was best known for the

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of the NFL, the new club instead decided to adopt the nickname Greensboro Hornets. That nickname was better known for teams based in

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, but the

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baseball team had abandoned its nickname after the 1973 season, and the new Greensboro team adopted it. Some naming rights complications arose when the

of the NBA began play in 1988. The nicknames co-existed in the state until 1994, when the Hornets settled with the NBA and changed their name to the punning nickname Greensboro Bats. Consequently, the team mascot switched from a

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to a flying bat wielding a

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. With the move from 80-year-old War Memorial Stadium to the new park in 2005, the club further expanded its corporate face-lift by changing nicknames again, to the alliterative Greensboro Grasshoppers. In the 2008 season 18-year-old

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, former second round pick by the

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, set the single season record for home runs by a Greensboro player with 39. In 2009, Master Yogi Berra, a black Labrador who has been "a fixture" at Grasshoppers games since then, became the only dog ever thrown out of a professional baseball game for "leaving a mess in the outfield." In 2011, the Grasshoppers won 13 of their last 15 regular season games to make the playoffs for the first time in 12 years. After winning the second half of the season in the Northern Division, the Grasshoppers went on to beat the

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in five games to win the South Atlantic League championship, their first title in 29 years. In 2012, the Grasshoppers won the SAL Northern Division first half championship by posting a record of 46–24. They went on to win the Northern Division title with a 2–0 sweep of the

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in the first round of the playoffs, but lost the Championship Series 3–1 to the

. In September 2018, the Grasshoppers signed a 2-year affiliation agreement with the

. For the 2018 season, the Grasshoppers went 60-76 under manager Todd Pratt for a 13th-place finish in the South Atlantic League. For 2019, the Pirates organization made Miguel Perez head coach, who managed the Grasshoppers to an improved 79-59 for a 3rd-place finish. For 2020 Perez was moved to the Pirates' Bradenton Marauders club, and the Pirates announced Kieran Mattison would be the Grasshoppers' new manager. However, all minor league baseball was shut down due to the

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. In conjunction with

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's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Grasshoppers were organized into the High-A East. They finished the 2021 season in second place in the Southern Division with a record of 74–46. Despite not winning the division, their record was the second-best overall in the league, which qualified them for the playoffs. They lost the best-of-five championship series to the

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, 3–2. In 2022, the High-A East became known as the South Atlantic League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to the 2021 reorganization. On January 4, 2022, Temerity Baseball bought the team.

Ballpark

The Greensboro clubs initially played their home games at Cone Athletic Park, better known as simply Cone Park, a small facility on the grounds of the

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textile plant.

opened in 1926 (on

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), but the Patriots continued to play at Cone Park until 1930, when the addition of lights and other improvements to the Stadium, spurred by the affiliation with the Cardinals, resulted in the team moving to the Stadium. The various Greensboro clubs would call the Stadium "home" for the next 75 years. The franchise moved from 80-year-old War Memorial Stadium to

in 2005.

Notable franchise alumni

Hall of Fame alumni * Heinie Manush (1941-1942, MGR) Inducted, 1964 *

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(1930-1931, 1933) Inducted, 1981 *

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(1991, 1993) 13 x MLB All-Star; 1999 World Series Most Valuable Player; All-Time MLB Saves Leader, Inducted 2019 *

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(1992-1993) 14 x AL All-Star; 1995 AL Rookie of the Year; 2000 World Series Most Valuable Player Notable alumni * Johnny Allen (1945) MLB All-Star *

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(1948) 2 x MLB All-Star * Curt Blefary (1962-1963) 1965 AL Rookie of the Year *

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(1960) Author; MLB All-Star * Mace Brown (1930) MLB All-Star *

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(2002) 8 x MLB All-Star * Chris Coghlan (2007) 2009 NL Rookie of the Year * Scott Cooper (1987) 2 x MLB All-Star *

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(1991) 2 x MLB All-Star * Jose Fernández 2 x MLB All-Star; 2013 NL Rookie of the Year * Wes Ferrell (1949) 2 x MLB All-Star *

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(1942) 2 x MLB All-Star *

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(1968) 2 x MLB All-Star * Greg Gagne (1980-1981) * Sterling Hitchcock (1990) *

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(1980) *

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(1983) * Josh Johnson (2003, 2008) 2 x MLB All-Star; 2010 NL ERA Leader * Nick Johnson (1997) *

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(1983) 2 x MLB All-Star *

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(1996) 4 x MLB All-Star; 2007 World Series Most Valuable Player * Bill Lee (1930) 2 x MLB All-Star; 1938 NL ERA Leader * Ken McBride (1955-1956) 3 x MLB All-Star *

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(1980) 6 x MLB All-Star ; 1984 AL Batting Title; 1985 AL Most Valuable Player * John Mayberry (1968) 2 x MLB All-Star *

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(1957) 4 x MLB All-Star *

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(1980) *

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(1931) * Marcell Ozuna (2011) 2 x MLB All-Star *

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(1982) *

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(1965) MLB All-Star *

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(1992) 3 x MLB All-Star *

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(1992) 5 x MLB All-Star *

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(1948) MLB All-Star *

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(1989) MLB All-Star *

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(1987) 6 x MLB All-Star; World Series Most Valuable Player *

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(1913) *

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(1990) *

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(1962) 5 x MLB All-Star * Eddie Taubensee (1987) * Jim Turner (1926) MLB All-Star; 1937 NL ERA Leader *

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(1959) 3 x MLB All Star; 1962 AL Rookie of the Year *

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(2005) MLB All-Star *

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(1928) 5 x MLB All-Star; 1944 NL Batting Title * Roy White (1962-1963) 2 x MLB All-Star *

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Active

Greensboro alumni who are currently on Major League active rosters: * Austin Barnes, catcher,

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, outfielder,

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* Marcell Ozuna, outfielder, Atlanta Braves *

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, pitcher,

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, pitcher,

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Roster

Sources

* ''Professional Baseball Franchises'', Peter Filichia, Facts on File Books, 1993. * ''Baseball in North Carolina's Piedmont'', Chris Holaday, Arcadia, 2002.

References

External links

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