Rochester Americans - American Hockey League
Rochester Knighthawks - National Lacrosse League
Batavia Muckdogs - New York-Penn League baseball
Rochester Raiders - Indoor Football League
Rochester Razorsharks - Premier Basketball League
Rochester Red Wings - International League baseball
Rochester Rhinos - United Soccer Leagues First Division
Empire State Roar - Women’s Football Alliance
All I can think of off the top of my head are the River City Rascals and the Gateway Grizzlies, both independent minor league baseball teams in the Frontier League.
I’m in St. Louis.
Reno Aces - Pacific Coast League (Arizona Diamondbacks AAA team)
Reno Bighorns - NBA D-League (Sacramento Kings/Orlando Magic affiliate)
That’s it, as far as I know. We’re supposed to have an ECHL hockey team (the Reno Raiders), but the team owner apparently doesn’t have a place for them to play. He wanted to be up and running last year, but wasn’t - who knows when (if?) they’ll get off the ground.
The Arizona Rattlers, Arena football.
There used to be a minor league hockey team here, but the recession killed them. Phoenix Roadrunners, I think.
Not sure if the WNBA is minor league, but we have the Phoenix Mercury.
The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and the Inland Empire 66ers are the closest minor league teams I’m aware of. Both are single-A baseball clubs. I no longer know who the Quakes are an affiliate of (was the Mariners, then the Angels – someone else, now), and the 66ers are the Dodgers’ farm club.
Lakewood Blueclaws
Austin Aztex- USSF Division 2
Lancaster Barnstormers. They’re Atlantic League, unaffiliated with MLB.
The Altoona Curve. My hometown team. The website says they’re the Pirates’ EAS AA team, whatever EAS means.
The Chicago Cubs.
(I’ll be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress.)
Sacramento Rivercats (Oakland A’s AAA affiliate)
Sacramento Mountain Lions (United Football League)
Not minor pro, but within an hour from me is the Sudbury Wolves OHL junior team, and the North Bay Trappers (Tier 2 junior hockey).
And at the college/university level, there’s the Nipissing Lakers in North Bay. Oddly, Laurentian in Sudbury, a bigger university than Nipissing, doesn’t compete in CIS hockey.
As far as I know, the only team within an hour of here is the Hudson Valley Renegades, a single-A affiliate of the Rays. I’ve watched them play the Brooklyn Cyclone a few times. There are a scattering of independent league teams but all more than an hour away, mostly in Massachusetts and Jersey.
Research into this question has caused me to discover that the American Defenders of New Hampshire, a team in the Can-Am League, has folded. New Hampshire now stands undefended, by baseball anyway.
We’ve a number of them here in the Cleveland area (Tom Scud beat me to the obvious joke): baseball’s Akron Aeros, Lake County Captains and Lorain County Crushers (Frontier League) and indoor football’s Cleveland Gladiators. We have minor league - excuse me, mid-major- college basketball from Cleveland State, Kent State and Akron U.
Fucker…
Oops, I overlooked Cleveland minor league hockey team, the AHL’s Lake Erie Monsters. My apologies.
Baseball: Vermont Lake Monsters, Single A affiliate of the Washington Nationals (this might be their last season if they can’t find a way to raise money for a new ballpark/get even more extensions for the outdated and not up to code one they have now)
Football: Vermont Ice Storm (member of the Empire Football League, so I think it’s like the minor leagues of the minor leagues, or something.)
Basketball: Vermont Frost Heaves (used to be a member of the new American Basketball Association (and were the 2007 and 2008 champs,) now a member of the Premiere Basketball League.
Wenatchee Applesox - West Coast League baseball
Wenatchee Wild- NAHL hockey
Wenatchee Valley Venom - AIFA indoor football
I’m going to a Nashville Sounds game this weekend (Triple A). I think we have minor league basketball and arena football teams too, but I’m not sure.
Cubs and White Sox aside, the Chicago area is practically littered with Minor League teams.
The Kane County Cougars are an A-level affiliate of the Oakland A’s. They’re about 20 minutes from my house and I go there often, always a good time.
And then there are no fewer than four non-affiliated independent pro teams in the area:
The Windy City Thunderbolts, in Crestwood, of the Frontier League; and the Scaumburg Flyers, Joliet Jackhammers, and Lake County Fielders (owned by Kevin Costner) in the Northern League.
And if you consider Gary, Indiana to be part of the Chicago area, there’s the Railcats too.
Yeah, we were hoping to grab them from you guys being as the Nationals are right up the street. Instead, we ended up with the G-D Flying Squirrels here in Richmond. WTF does a flying squirrel have to do with my fair city?!? The name is stupid, the mascot looks like something out of a Rob Zombie hallucination, and we still have to watch them play in the hellhole that is, “The Diamond”. And no, it has not, and will not, “Grow on me”.
/rant
Richmond Kickers (Soccer)
Richmond Kickers Destiny (Women’s Soccer)
Richmond Revolution (Indoor Football)
And you know what else? I am damned tired of hearing all of the stupid puns that go along with that stupid name in every commercial on the radio that has even the smallest of sponsorships. “You’ll go nuts over our selection!”. “We are positively squirrelly here at…”
/Rant. Again.