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The Dodgers Are Long Gone, But the Cyclones Are on the Way

NEW YORK CITY-The Big Apple has jumped on the minor league ball team bandwagon in a big way. Brooklyn will be the third of the five boroughs to have a team, which has been named the Brooklyn Cyclones.

By Amy Vaughn | Updated on December 03, 2000

NEW YORK CITY-The Cyclone at Brooklyn’s Coney Island has, since 1927, amazed thrill seekers with 3,000 feet of track and speeds of 60 mph. The famous ride is now the namesake, thanks to baseball fan John Diffley of Port Jefferson, Long Island, of the city’s latest minor league team, the Brooklyn Cyclones. Ground has already broken on its permanent home. This is the third team unveiled in the city, and the second with a stadium on the way.

Across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan residents are up in arms over proposals by the mayor and Olympic lobbying team NYC2012 for a big league sports stadium on West Side. The outer boroughs, however, are celebrating the progress on their minor league baseball stadiums. The city says the teams are already generating revenue and with permanent homes, the potential is even greater.

Mayor Giuliani joined Jeffrey and Fred Wilpon, owners of the Mets, in congratulating Diffley on beating 7,000 other fans in a team naming contest. This will be the first professional baseball team in Brooklyn since the Brooklyn Dodgers defected to Los Angeles 43 years ago. The Cyclones will be a Class A team in the New York-Pennsylvania Professional Baseball League.

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