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2009 forest dash4/19/2023 On February 24, 2010, the Dash announced BB&T Ballpark's official name. On June 2, 2009, the Dash announced a new scheduled opening for the 2010 season. Meanwhile, Ernie Shore Field had been sold to Wake Forest and renamed as Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park, compelling the Dash to lease the ballpark back for the 2009 season. BB&T Ballpark was hoped to be completed for the 2009 season, or sometime within the season, but construction came to a halt due to a lack of funding. Opened in 1956, Ernie Shore Field seats 6,000 fans. When that park burned, a new park was built on the north side, near the Wake Forest University campus and the RJR plant, and named Ernie Shore Field in honor of the former major leaguer who had led the fund drive for the new ballpark. The club originally played at South Side Park, south of the downtown area. In 2022, the High-A East became known as the South Atlantic League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to the 2021 reorganization. In conjunction with Major League Baseball's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Dash were organized into the High-A East. In keeping with the image of speed implied by "The Dash", the new mascot is a lightning-themed character named Bolt. With the new nickname, the Dash held a name-the-mascot contest for Wally's replacement. The Dash name is rumored to be a reference to a nickname for the city of Winston-Salem, "The Dash", a reference to the (-) symbol used in the middle of the city's name, despite the fact that it isn't a dash at all, but a hyphen.Īs the Warthogs, the team's mascot was Wally Warthog. On December 4, 2008, the team publicly announced that they would be called the Winston-Salem Dash from 2009 onward. As the Warthogs, they were the league champion in 2003. In addition to being alliterative, it also referred to the somewhat-celebrated acquisition of some warthogs at the North Carolina Zoo around that time. The winning entry, the Warthogs, became the official team name in 1995. After the 1994 season, the club decided to change its name and sponsored a contest through the local newspaper, the Winston-Salem Journal, to come up with a new name. The team initially retained the Spirits name after becoming the Cincinnati Reds A-level affiliate in 1993, winning the Carolina League championship in that same year. The logo of the Winston-Salem Warthogs, used from 1995 to 2008 In 1984, the team changed affiliates again, this time contracting with the Chicago Cubs, and changed its name to the Winston-Salem Spirits. It remained with the Red Sox for 22 years, and was known until 1983 as the Winston-Salem Red Sox. Īfter a brief period (1957–60) as the Winston-Salem Red Birds, the team switched affiliation in 1961 to the Boston Red Sox. The 1950 team was recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time. Louis Cardinals affiliate, it retained the Twins name until 1953, when it became the Winston-Salem Cardinals. The current franchise joined the Carolina League in 1945, and is the oldest continuously operating team in that circuit. The Twins played in the Virginia-North Carolina League in 1905, the Carolina Baseball Association from 1908 to 1917 and the Piedmont League from 1920 to 1933 and again from 1937 to 1942. Previous baseball clubs in Winston-Salem had typically been called the "Twins", in reference to the long-since-merged "Twin Cities" of Winston and Salem since 1905.
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