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The Lowell Spinners are a Short-Season A minor league baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. ==History== Founded in 1996 after Clyde Smoll moved the Elmira Pioneers to Lowell, Massachusetts, the Spinners play in the New York–Penn League, which has a Short-Season A classification with 76 games a year. The Spinners play 38 of the 76 games at their home park, Edward A. LeLacheur Park, in Lowell, near the Merrimack River. The official mascots of the Spinners are Canaligator, Allie-Gator, and Millie-Gator. They were introduced on 1/19/1996, 7/8/1999, and Opening Day 2006, respectively. In 2005, the Spinners offered to pay for the uniforms to all Little Leagues in New England so that they would change all teams named "Yankees" into "Spinners". In 2007 WLLH 1400 AM (at that time Lowell's ESPN Radio affiliate) was the flagship of Lowell Spinners baseball, after several years on Lowell talk station WCAP. As of 2008, Spinners games are back on WCAP. On September 1, 2008, the Spinners reached the NYPL (New York–Penn League) playoffs for the first time capturing the Stedler Division title. The Lowell Spinners reached the playoffs in 2009, and have not reached them since. At of the conclusion of the 2008 Spinners season, the franchise had sold out the past 346 games dating back to prior decade. In August 2010 the streak was snapped at 413 games. In 2011, Lowell Spinners owner Drew Weber founded the newly formed Futures Collegiate Baseball League with a charter franchise, the Nashua Silver Knights at Holman Stadium in Nashua, NH. In October 2014 the Red Sox agreed to extend their player development contract with the Spinners for two more years through the 2016 season.〔(RedSoxMLB.com – Red Sox, Lowell extend player development deal through '16 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lowell Spinners」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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