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The Frederick Keys minor league baseball team is the "High-A" class A baseball affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. The Keys are based in Frederick, Maryland. The franchise is named for ''Star Spangled Banner'' poet Francis Scott Key, a native of Frederick County. A new team mascot "Frank Key", short for Francis Scott Key, joined the current mascot, a coyote named ''Keyote'', at the beginning of the 2011 baseball season.〔url=http://frederickkeys.mlblogs.com/2011/03/30/new-mascot-frank-key-joins-keys/〕 The team is currently owned by Maryland Baseball Holding LLC, after being purchased in 2006 from Comcast Spectacor. Home games are played at Harry Grove Stadium. ==Early professional baseball in Frederick== Frederick was one of the founding members of the Blue Ridge League, which existed from 1915 to 1930.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.blueridgeleague.org )〕 The team, which went by the names of Hustlers, Champs and Warriors, won league championships in 1915 and 1921. Games were played at the Frederick Fairgrounds until 1924 when McCurdy Field was built. With the collapse of the Blue Ridge League in 1931, it would be several decades before professional baseball returned to Frederick. Frederick players from this era who were major leaguers: * Clyde Barnhart: 1915, 1916, 1917 * Tom Connolly: 1915 * Bill Lamar: 1915 * Leo Meyer: 1916 * Tom Crooke: 1917 * Clarence Blethen: 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923 * Ray Gardner: 1920, 1922, 1923, 1925 * Ray Hartranft: 1920 * Duke Sedgwick: 1922 * Jim Keesey: 1923 * Norm McNeil: 1923 * Bobby Schang: 1923 * Chick Fullis: 1924, 1925, 1926 * Karl Kolseth: 1924 * Bill Hohman: 1924 * Rollie Hemsley: 1925, 1926, 1927 * Larry Boerner:1926 * Jimmie DeShong:1928 * Joe Vosmik: 1929 * Milt Galatzer: 1930 * Bill Perrin: 1930 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「Frederick Keys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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