Tag: The Ball Park at Old Orchard Beach

1984 Maine Guides baseball yearbook from the International League

Maine Guides

March 18, 2018

International League (1984-1987) Born: 1983 – The Charleston Charlies relocate to Old Orchard Beach, ME Re-Branded: January 1988 (Maine Phillies) First Game: April 10, 1984 (L 6-4

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1988 Maine Phillies baseball program from the International League

Maine Phillies

November 9, 2014

The Maine Phillies of the Class AAA International League were the top farm club of the Philadelphia Phillies during the summer of 1988. Previously known as the Maine Guides from 1947 to 1987, the ball club was also a lame duck, stranded in Old Orchard Beach that summer thanks to a ferocious legal dispute over the ownership of the franchise. After the 1988 season, the team executed its long-awaited move to Pennsylvania and became the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Red Barons in 1989.

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