A Baseball Team With No Home

[Mitchell]

Imagine if you were a professional baseball team, either major or minor league, and you had no home stadium, or home games, and your entire schedule was played on the road. Well, apparently, in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, there is such a team.
Tomorrow night, weather permitting, I am supposed to attend my second Lancaster Barnstormers game at Clipper Magazine Stadium. The Barnstormers opponent for the game will be the Road Warriors. When I looked up their website on the league schedule, I was surprised to find out that they are operating solely as a road team, playing all the other teams in the league only on the road, and have no home. Their offices, I believe, are based out of Delaware.
Imagine any major league team, no matter how good, or bad, playing 162 games a year only on the road. That team wouldnt likely do very well with no home field advantage, last at bats, or home crowd to root them on. Maybe a 500 team at best, or, likely, worse than that.
I wonder if these Road Warriors will ever get a home field. I hope that tomorrow night's game is not rained out, so that I can get a chance to see them against our Barnstormers. That is certainly an interesting scenario, a baseball team with no home.

Mitch

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

Didn't the Montreal Expos play like play like 110 to 120 games on the road??? I mean they ( MLB ) wanted them out of Montreal so bad that about 30 of their " Home " games were in San Juan.

 

[Lionhart]

Thats Delaware for ya..

 

[milagros317]

In 1899, the National League had 12 teams, all in one league with no Divisions, including the Cleveland Spiders.

At a certain point in the 1899 baseball season, the Cleveland Spiders decided to play all the rest of their games on the road, since they lost so much that almost nobody at home in Cleveland was actully buying tickets to see them. They finished the year with 20 wins and 134 losses. That 134 losses is the major league record (not the 120 losses by the New York Mets in 1962, as many falsely believe).

PS: They finished 84 games out of first place, 84 games behind the NL Champion Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

[Mitchell]

The Expos did play a lot of road games,4u, although I dont know if it was 110 or 120. If I recall, they played like half their home games at Montreal, and the other half at San Juan. The year with all the road games, was, I think, the time that the roof collapsed at Olympic Stadium.
This game tonight should be interesting. I hope Lancaster wins, as they lost the last time I was there, it would be nice to see the home team take it.

Mitch

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

The Expos did play a lot of road games,4u, although I dont know if it was 110 or 120. If I recall, they played like half their home games at Montreal, and the other half at San Juan. The year with all the road games, was, I think, the time that the roof collapsed at Olympic Stadium.
This game tonight should be interesting. I hope Lancaster wins, as they lost the last time I was there, it would be nice to see the home team take it.

Mitch

Half of a home schedule is 40 games. So if they played half of their game in San Juan and played 81 road games that would equal 121 road games.