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The Brooklyn Cyclones rode their superb pitching all the way to the NYPL championship series, an accomplishment they have not achieved since 2003.
Brooklyn Cyclones Press Release - How the team got their name.
BrooklynCyclones.com - The Official Web-Site of the Brooklyn Cyclones.
www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/cyclones_schedule.html   (340 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Brooklyn Cyclones   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1898, Brooklyn residents voted by a slight majority to join with Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Richmond (later Staten Island) as the five boroughs to form the modern City of Greater New York.
Brooklyn, the 'Borough of Homes', can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times.
Brooklyn's most beloved and cherished institution had left, and the move is cited by some historians as one of the catalysts for the decline of Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City with about 2.5 million inhabitants.
The loss of Brooklyn's separate identity as a city was met with some consternation by some residents at the time, and later; the merger has been known as the "Great Mistake of 1898", as it was called by many newspapers of the day, and the phrase still denotes Brooklyn pride among old-time Brooklynites.
Brooklyn's most famous team, the Dodgers, got its start as a minor league team in 1883, joining the American Association in 1884, calling themselves the Bridegrooms and playing at the first of three venues called Washington Park.
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 Brooklyn Cyclones Tickets Main Page: Game, Event Ticket and Team Info at Guide to Tickets.com
Welcome to the Brooklyn Cyclones Tickets and team info page.
The Brooklyn Cyclones play in the Other Leagues of the Minor League.
Be sure to catch great games against the Brooklyn Cyclones rivals.
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 Brooklyn Cyclones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1999 the team was bought and moved to Brooklyn.
The Cyclones were strong in their opening season with the best record in the league, 52-24.
The first Cyclone to play in the major leagues was infielder Danny Garcia, who made his debut with the New York Mets on September 2, 2003, in a 3-1 Met win over the Atlanta Braves at Shea Stadium.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brooklyn_Cyclones   (455 words)

  
 Brooklyn Papers Cyclones Coverage
The Cyclones, who won the league’s McNamara Division playoff beating the Staten Island Yankees two games to one last week, held a 1-0 advantage in the best-of-three championship series, the result of a 7-4 win over the Pinckney Division champs, the Crosscutters, Monday night in Williamsport.
But as these may be the last words to be written about the Cyclones for many months, it feels important to point out that the team’s wildly successful debut season closed on a successful note.
After the Cyclones added a run in the third on Corr’s sacrifice fly, the Crosscutters proved pesky, chipping away at the lead with single runs in the third, fifth and sixth innings.
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 Brooklyn Papers Cyclones Coverage
But on a gorgeous night in their gorgeous new field of dreams in Coney Island, the Brooklyn Cyclones were the living embodiment of all three slogans rolled into one.
Winning in stunning, come-from-behind fashion Monday night, the Cyclones not only brought professional baseball back to Brooklyn for the first time in 44 years, but did it in a style that would've made the Mets' advertising wizards ashamed of themselves.
Before the Cyclones could take the field, of course, the rebirth of professional baseball in Brooklyn (enough already!) had to be ushered in by an operating room full of politicians, reporters and hangers-on all claiming to be the father.
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 Sporting News, The: Send in the 'Clones - minor league baseball team in Brooklyn, NYC - Brief Article
When it was announced two years ago that the Yankees and the Mets would both move minor league teams into the city (the Staten Island Yankees also play in the New York-Penn League), some Brooklynites insisted that no short-season team, playing at the lowest rung in professional baseball, could assuage their pain.
Brooklyn's sad-sack self-image was fostered by the team that lost eight World Series (six to the crosstown Yankees) and was known affectionately as Dem Bums.
But little of this registers with the average Brooklyn fan, who is happy to see a professional team return to New York City's most-populous borough.
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 Brooklyn Cyclones   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A name-the-team contest was held, and the club became known as the Cyclones, namedfor the famous Cyclone roller coaster at a nearby amusement park.
Therehad been no professional baseball in the borough –; indeed, no professional sports at all – since the Dodgers had left Ebbets Field in the Flatbush section for the sunny climes of California.
The potential championship clincher was scheduled for September 11 in Brooklyn, but that morning the World Trade Center in Manhattan was destroyed in a terrorist attack and the league canceled the remainder of the series, leaving Brooklyn andWilliamsport as co-champions.
www.therfcc.org /brooklyn-cyclones-12710.html   (360 words)

  
 Brooklyn Cyclones News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brooklyn Cyclones news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
A, N.J. -The end is near for the Brooklyn Cyclones.
The manager of the Mets Class A Brooklyn Cyclones resigned Friday, a day after he was arrested in Florida.
www.topix.net /minor-league-baseball/brooklyn-cyclones   (396 words)

  
 Brooklyn Cyclones Tickets - All Brooklyn Cyclones Tickets - Buy/Sell   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball Tickets to see the Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball Team play at Keyspan Park in Brooklyn, New York.
Brooklyn Cyclones Ticket prices and availability are subject to change at any time.
Brooklyn Cyclones Ticket deliveries are guaranteed no later than the day before the event unless stated otherwise, however every effort will be made to deliver Brooklyn Cyclones tickets as early as possible.
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 nycedc.com-News Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Brooklyn Cyclones are scheduled to play 38 home games, and could play an additional six home games if they make the playoffs this year.
"Brooklyn Baseball Company is thrilled that the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones will carry the distinguished and respected name of KeySpan," said Mr.
Brooklyn Baseball Company is committed to making the Brooklyn Cyclones the best professional minor league baseball club in America.
www.newyorkbiz.com /londonewyork/About_Us/getPressReleasePreview2001_detail5.htm   (826 words)

  
 FORWARD : FastForward   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After a 44-year absence, professional baseball returned to Brooklyn with a dramatic flourish Monday night as the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets' new farm club, opened their home season with a thrilling 3-2 victory over the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a Cleveland Indians' farm club.
True, the Jews most identified with Brooklyn today — the chasidim of Crown Heights and Boro Park and the "Russian" immigrants in Brighton Beach — tend not to treat baseball with the religious fervor of their forebears.
Ojeda is too young to have known the Brooklyn Dodgers —in fact, he grew up just two miles from the Los Angeles Dodgers' stadium —; he considers Johnny Podres, the hero of the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1955 world championship team, to be one of his mentors.
www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.06.29/fast1.html   (1155 words)

  
 Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City.With about 2.5 million inhabitants, it would be the fourth largest city in the United States all by itself, were it a city.
Kings County, coterminous with Brooklyn, is also, the most populous county in New York.
Variously called the "City of Homes" or the "City of Churches" in the 19thcentury, Brooklyn is now often styled the "Borough of Homes and Churches".
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 Writer's Spotlight: Mark Healey ::NY Sports Day - Independent Brooklyn Cyclones Coverage
During his first season covering the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2001, Mark Healey got a chance to actually tryout for the Mets.
The Brooklyn native has been trying to reach his ultimate goal of becoming a baseball beat writer in New York since he started with the Associated Press in 1998 and has worked a number of freelance jobs on the side.
After working various ends for the newswire, he got a break when he started covering the Brooklyn Cyclones in their inaugural season and has covered them for various publications since.
www.nysportsday.com /news/bkn/1103182037.html   (559 words)

  
 Brooklyn Cyclones - Class A Short Season New York-Penn League Baseball Past Articles on MLN Sports Zone - A Minor ...
Brooklyn's KeySpan Park is the cover feature in the MLN Guide to the Top 10 Ballparks in the minor leagues for 2004.
Overflow crowds at Yankee Stadium are diverted to new minor league parks in Brooklyn and Staten Island.
The Cyclone's home field was named one of the top places to watch a minor league baseball game by the editors of MLN.
www.minorleaguenews.com /baseball/affiliated/ashort/nypenn/cyclones/pastarticles.html   (216 words)

  
 Gothamist: Brooklyn Cyclones Open at Home
Tonight, the Brooklyn Cyclones take the field at Keyspan Park for their home opener in the New York-Penn League.
This is the fourth season for the Cyclones, who are a Class A minor league affiliate of the Mets.
The Cyclones' roster, which includes a lot of players born in the 80's, also has Bronx-native, Travis Garcia, the starting 3rd basemen for the Cyclones.
www.gothamist.com /2004/06/22/brooklyn_cyclones_open_at_home.php   (308 words)

  
 Scout.com: Mookie ready to run Brooklyn
BROOKLYN – Preparing for his first day on the new job, Brooklyn Cyclones manager Mookie Wilson had a huge caveat for his club's fans, one they couldn't particularly care to hear.
Though it certainly felt like a miniature minor league Opening Day at Brooklyn, complete with players straddling the base lines and American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis belting out the National Anthem, Wilson isn't fooled by the Cyclones' proximity to the major league club and their presence as the marquee item in the New York-Penn League.
While Wilson hopes to continue the Cyclones' winning ways this season, coming off two sub-.500 seasons managing Rookie-league Kingsport, he understands that nurturing future big leaguers, not wins and losses, are the key item at Brooklyn.
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 KINGSBOROUGH NIGHT CELEBRATES CYCLONE PARTNERSHIP
Joining in the honors are two students being acknowledged by the Brooklyn Cyclones with $1,250 scholarships each for their work as broadcast majors at Kingsborough.
The scholarship is part of a growing community partnership between Kingsborough Community College and the Brooklyn Cyclones that began with the college’s agreement to broadcast all the Cyclones games on the college radio station.
The Brooklyn Cyclones Scholarship for Broadcast Excellence and Service is given to two full-time students majoring in the broadcasting curriculum who have maintained a grade point average of 3.0 or higher, and at least a 3.2 in their major.
www.kbcc.cuny.edu /pr/pressrelease/wngame.htm   (489 words)

  
 Brooklyn Cyclones Tickets : August 30, 2005 Brooklyn Cyclones Brooklyn at Keyspan Park Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brooklyn Cyclones tickets are going fast, so get them before this event is sold out completely.
We have tickets for Brooklyn Cyclones for every Brooklyn Cyclones event in the US including this one at Keyspan Park in Brooklyn, NY on August 30, 2005, 7:00 pm.
Most Brooklyn Cyclones ticket orders are shipped the first business order is placed, however sometimes the tickets may not be printed at time of order.
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 Brooklyn Papers Cyclones Coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And the tendency for Brooklyn fans to be personally involved with their baseball team goes back to the Dodgers.
Lenny Dinardo, the second Cyclone to make the majors, pitched for the Boston Rec Sox earlier this season, but he is now on their disabled list.
Brooklyn Papers columnist Ed Shakespeare’s book about the Cyclones first season, “When Baseball Returned to Brooklyn”(McFarland and Co.), is available at Amazon.com.
www.brooklynpapers.com /html/cyclones/html/shakespeare/2004season/27_32plays.html   (1121 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Home - Mookie, Cyclones rollin'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Brooklyn Cyclones played the game last night the way their manager Mookie Wilson played it during his big-league career: very aggressively and very quickly.
Brooklyn added four insurance runs in the eighth, and the Cyclones needed them.
Brooklyn was successful on five of seven attempted steals in improving to 5-0 in home openers.
www.nydailynews.com /front/story/321404p-274822c.html   (481 words)

  
 NYU Press   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When professional baseball returned to Brooklyn in 2001, fans were jubilant and the media swarmed.
After losing the Brooklyn Dodgers to California 44 years ago, Brooklyn baseball fans could once again claim a team of their own: the Cyclones, a Class A affiliate of the New York Mets.
Osborne includes chapters on the Cyclones' rivalry with the Staten Island Yankees, the Cyclones' chances of capturing the New York-Penn League title, and an epilogue updating Kay's, Otero's, and the Cyclones' progress through the 2003 season.
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 Books : The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With Ben Osborne's newest book, The Brooklyn Cyclones, Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island, baseball is displayed, honored, and celebrated in such a way that my "jones" for a bleacher seat, a dog and a draft has spiraled out of control.
This tale of baseball's return to Brooklyn is much more than just an account of the 2001 season of the Mets' Single-A Brooklyn Cyclones.
As a single-A prospect, Kay like many others in his position, the Cyclones are the first step in his pursuit of his dream of one day playing in the bigs.
www.strictlysports.com /baseball/0814762050.shtml   (349 words)

  
 SI.com - Writers - Jonah Freedman: Brooklyn is ready to be big league again - Wednesday August 3, 2005 5:28PM
But the Brooklyn Cyclones -- the Class-A affiliate of the New York Mets -- are one of baseball's biggest success stories.
And the nostalgic value of a professional baseball team back in Brooklyn after 44 years is not lost on the residents of the most populous borough in New York City.
On the weekend of July 23, the Cyclones held a series of promotions to honor the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers on the 50th anniversary of their first and only World Series title in Brooklyn.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/writers/jonah_freedman/08/03/brooklyn.dodgers   (674 words)

  
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