Fort Myers Miracle
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| Fort Myers Miracle Founded in 1992 Fort Myers, Florida |
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| Owner(s)/Operated by: Greater Miami Baseball Club, LP | |||
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| General Manager: Steve Gliner | |||
The Fort Myers Miracle are a Minor League Baseball team based in Fort Myers, Florida.
The team, which plays in the Florida State League, is the Class A Advanced affiliate of the Minnesota Twins Major League club. Home games are played at Hammond Stadium, which has a capacity of 7,500. It opened in 1991. The park is also used as the Minnesota Twins spring training facility.
Musician Jimmy Buffett and actor Bill Murray have been minority part-owners of the team since 1989. The majority owner is Marvin Goldklang who also owns a stake in 5 other minor league baseball teams throughout the country.
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[edit] History
The Miracle franchise was founded in 1926, as the Ft. Myers Palms. One year later, they moved to Miami and were renamed the Hustlers. The team became temporarily inactive, with the rest of the Florida State League, midway through the 1928 season. The Hustlers remained inactive until they were reactivated by the FSL, during the 1961-1962 offseason, almost a year after the original Marlins of the Class AAA International League moved to San Juan (and subsequently Charleston, SC) following the 1960 season. (Miami had no active Minor League franchise in 1961.) In 1962, the former Hustlers franchise was sold and named the Miami Marlins, after the former Class AAA team of the same name which existed from 1956-1960 (after the Syracuse Chiefs transferred there).The team played in the Class A Florida State League from 1963-1970 (Class D in 1962) and again from 1982-1988 as the Marlins. They were known as the Miami Orioles from 1971-1981, then the Miami Miracle from 1989-1991 and are now known as the Fort Myers Miracle. During the vast majority of their time in Miami, the team played at Miami Stadium.
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The Miracle have been affiliated with the following major league teams:
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| 1962-1965 | Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1966-1981 | Baltimore Orioles |
| 1983-1984 | San Diego Padres |
| 1993-Present | Minnesota Twins |
[edit] Trivia
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- The Miracle's name and logo appeared in the 1998 film Major League: Back to the Minors. Gus Cantrell (Scott Bakula) pitched for the Miracle before retiring to become the manager of the Buzz.
- Miss A-Miracle is the Fort Myers Miracle Mascot. "Missy" is a fun loving Golden Retriever and can be seen at all of the Miracle's home games.
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Fort Myers Miracle Beloit Snappers |
Elizabethton Twins Gulf Coast Twins |
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