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Lansing Lugnuts
Founded in 1996
Lansing, Michigan

Team Logo

Cap Insignia

Class-Level

Single-A (1996-present)

Minor League affiliations

Midwest League (1996-present)
- Eastern Division

Major League affiliations

Toronto Blue Jays (2005-present)
Chicago Cubs (1999-2004)
Kansas City Royals (1996-1998)

Name

Lansing Lugnuts (1996-present)

Ballpark

Oldsmobile Park (1996-present)

Minor League titles

League titles

1997, 2003

Division titles

Owner(s)/Operated by: Take Me Out To The Ballgame, LLC

Manager: Clayton McCullough

General Manager: Pat Day

The Lansing Lugnuts are a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays, that plays in the Midwest League. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Atlanta Braves (4-2 John Wetteland, MVP The Midwest League is a Class A Minor league baseball league which operates in the Midwestern United States. The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. Oldsmobile Park is a Baseball stadium in Lansing Michigan, and home field of the Lansing Lugnuts Minor league baseball team Part of the History of baseball series Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of Professional baseball leagues in North The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Midwest League is a Class A Minor league baseball league which operates in the Midwestern United States. The Lugnuts replaced the Charleston Alley Cats as a Blue Jays affiliate following the 2004 season. The West Virginia Power is a Minor league baseball team of the South Atlantic League, and is the Class A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "

The Midwest League came to Lansing, Michigan in 1996. The franchise began in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1955; after two seasons it moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where it stayed for 36 seasons. Lafayette (ˌlɑːfijˈɛt is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, U Waterloo is the County seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. Before the 1994 season it moved to Springfield, Illinois, but only spent two seasons there before moving to Lansing. Springfield is the capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116482 (U The franchise was an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals on two separate occasions in three different cities: as the Waterloo Royals [1] from 1969 through 1976, as the Springfield Sultans [2] in 1995, and then, upon the team's move to Lansing, from 1996 through 1998. The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Lugnuts were then an affiliate of the Chicago Cubs from 1999 through 2004 before joining the Jays' farm system for the 2005 season. The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois.

The team plays at Oldsmobile Park (named after the now-defunct General Motors division that was based there), which opened in 1996. Oldsmobile Park is a Baseball stadium in Lansing Michigan, and home field of the Lansing Lugnuts Minor league baseball team General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. Oldsmobile Park seats over 11,000 fans and is one of the largest Class A Minor League baseball parks in the United States. The franchise national attendance record of 538,326 was set during its inaugural year. They won the Midwest League Championship in 1997 and 2003. The Midwest League is a Class A Minor league baseball league which operates in the Midwestern United States.

Alumni

The following are players currently in Major League Baseball who played, at one time, for the Lugnuts. This partial list includes players making injury-comeback starts as well as those that developed in Lansing.

References

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Roth, Bob. Our Lugnuts, Year One. 1996. ISBN 0965560309
Lansing Lugnuts Official Website

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