Ottawa Lynx Tickets

The Ottawa Lynx is a minor league baseball team Ottawa Lynx Tickets that competes in the AAA International League. Their home field is Lynx Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario. From the 2003 to 2006 seasons, the team was the AAA-level minor league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles.

In late August 2006, the league approved a sale of the team, which has now made it a Philadelphia Phillies affiliate. The Lynx will continue to play in Ottawa during 2007, but the new owners intend to Ottawa Lynx Tickets move the team to Allentown, Pennsylvania for the 2008 season, when they will be known as the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.

The Lynx began play in 1993 and won their sole International League championship in 1995. From 1993 to 2002, they were the farm team for the Montreal Expos and featured such future Major League Baseball players as Rondell White, Cliff Floyd, Matt Stairs, Kirk Rueter, and F.P. Santangelo. The Lynx retired two numbers, Santangelo's 24, and Jamey Carroll's 3.

In recent years, the club has had difficulty attracting fans, which was one of several factors in the decision to relocate the team. They are also the only International League franchise based in Canada. The Lynx had hoped to increase attendance when the nearby Montreal Expos major-league team moved to the United States (becoming the Washington Nationals), but these projections did not come true. It could be argued that the Lynx suffered a similar Ottawa Lynx Tickets fate in garnering fan attention as the Expos slowly did after the 1994 season, which ended prematurely due to a strike.

On August 28, 2006, the majority of the team was sold to Joseph Finley and Craig Stein. Finley and Stein intend to move the team to Allentown, Pennsylvania for the 2008 season when Ottawa Lynx Tickets Allentown's new Lehigh County Ballpark is scheduled to be completed Ottawa Lynx Tickets.