23 Facts About Brooklyn Cyclones

Brooklyn Cyclones are a Minor League Baseball team of the South Atlantic League and the High-A affiliate of the New York Mets.

In 2001, the Brooklyn Cyclones were declared co-league champions with the Williamsport Crosscutters, being forced to prematurely end their championship series due to the September 11 attacks, despite the Brooklyn Cyclones leading the series one game to none.

Brooklyn Cyclones began as the St Catharines, Ontario, St Catharines Blue Jays in 1986 as a team in the New York–Penn League.

The winning selection, Brooklyn Cyclones, refers to the famous Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster at nearby Astroland amusement park on Coney Island.

Brooklyn Cyclones had been without professional baseball since the Brooklyn Cyclones Dodgers left Ebbets Field for Los Angeles, California in 1958.

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Brooklyn Cyclones managed by Edgar Alfonzo played well in their opening season with the best record in the league, where they led the NY Penn-League with a 2.

In 2003, the Brooklyn Cyclones managed by Tim Teufel won the McNamara division title with brilliant pitching led by starters, soon to be major leaguers, Matt Lindstrom and Brian Bannister and by relievers Robert Paulk and Carlos Muniz.

The Brooklyn Cyclones won the McNamara division title only to lose to the Tri-City ValleyCats in controversial fashion.

Also that year, the Cyclones became a major partner of Brooklyn's High School of Sports Management, a small school located down the block from KeySpan Park on West 19th Street and Mermaid Ave.

The Brooklyn Cyclones scored their lone run in the first inning; Oneonta tied the game in the fourth and then did not score again until they scored five runs in the top of the 26th inning.

However, the Brooklyn Cyclones went on to getting swept in disappointing fashion by the Auburn Doubledays for the NYPL Championship.

The Brooklyn Cyclones would make the playoffs as the wild card team in 2011 and 2012, but would not make it out of the semifinals.

The Brooklyn Cyclones failed to make the playoffs in 2013 and lost a tie-breaker in 2014 on and missed the playoffs on the last day of the season.

Since 2014, the Brooklyn Cyclones have dedicated one night a year as a tribute to the popular sitcom Seinfeld, featuring various show tributes such as an "Elaine Benes dancing contest", determining if a fan had either picked or scratched their nose, the Brooklyn Cyclones wearing "Puffy Shirt"-styled jerseys, appearances from former actors and giveaways honoring the show.

The Brooklyn Cyclones would go on to have losing records in 2016 and 2017, but lost the tie-breaker and missed out on the playoffs on the last day of the season in 2018.

Brooklyn Cyclones returned to the New York-Penn League playoffs in 2019, thanks to a strong finish to end the season, which included a series sweep of the Staten Island Yankees in what would be the final match-up between the longtime rivals.

The Brooklyn Cyclones won Game 3 on a walkoff double from Ranfy Adon, sending them to the New York-Penn League Championship.

Brooklyn Cyclones faced the Lowell Spinners in a series that was dubbed "An MiLB Rematch of 1986", as the Spinners were a Red Sox farm team.

Brooklyn Cyclones would be the final New York-Penn League champions, as the COVID-19 Pandemic cancelled the 2020 season and the ensuing MiLB realignment led to the dissolving of the New York-Penn League.

Brooklyn Cyclones is the first former Cyclone to reach the World Series, though Lenny DiNardo, who pitched with the Cyclones in 2001, won a World Series ring with the Boston Red Sox in 2004 while on the Disabled List.

Brooklyn Cyclones was a real Chocolate Labrador Retriever who was owned by one of the Cyclones staff members.

Brooklyn Cyclones was not brought back for the 2021 season before returning in 2022.

Print Media2001–present: The Brooklyn Paper has covered every Cyclones game since the team's inception.