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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders

Minor League Baseball team in Moosic, Pennsylvania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, often abbreviated to SWB RailRiders, are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees. They are located in Moosic, Pennsylvania, in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, and are named in reference to Northeastern Pennsylvania being home to the first trolley system in the United States. The RailRiders have played their home games at PNC Field since its opening in 1989.

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“Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders” enters the record as minor League Baseball team in Moosic, Pennsylvania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and RailRiders can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.