{"id":324291,"date":"2026-11-09T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324291\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:42:37","slug":"new-york-yankees-triple-a-team-rebrands-to-highlanders-the-parent-clubs-nickname-from-1903-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324291\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees&#8217; Triple-A team rebrands to Highlanders, the parent club&#8217;s nickname from 1903-12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">MOOSIC, Pa. (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a>&#8216; Triple-A farm team has rebranded itself as the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Highlanders, the nickname of the parent club from 1903-12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Triple-A team affiliated with New York for the 2007 season and was known at first as the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. It was called the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders from 2013-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">New York was at first called the Highlanders because it played home games at Hilltop Park in upper Manhattan. The nickname changed when the team moved to the Polo Grounds in 1913.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Scranton said the new nickname is appropriate given PNC Field, its ballpark, is surrounded by hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">See AP\u2019s full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press MOOSIC, Pa. (AP) \u2014 The New York Yankees&#8216; Triple-A farm team has rebranded itself as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[11199,4559,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-324291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}