The York Revolution is an American professional baseball team based in York, Pennsylvania. It is a member of the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an independent "partner league" of Major League Baseball. The Revolution plays its home games at WellSpan Park, which opened in the surrounding Arch Street neighborhood in 2007. The team has won the league championship five times, most recently over the High Point Rockers on October 1, 2025.
Before the Revolution's inaugural season, baseball fans in York had waited almost four decades for the return of professional baseball to their city.
In 2012, the Revolution franchise/team introduced a new brand and logo to also emphasize York's contributions to American history in the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century, with a secondary emphasis on patriotism. The southeast Pennsylvania region is home to many industrial manufacturers such as Harley-Davidson, Stauffer's, and York International/Johnson Controls.
History of York baseball York White Roses
The York White Roses (known as the York Pirates in their last two seasons of existence, because of their affiliation then with Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates), played for 85 years in York from 1884 to 1969. The White Roses were bitter rivals of the Lancaster Red Roses baseball team of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, county seat and largest town in adjacent Lancaster County to the east. Both teams were named after the two warring 15th-century royal houses and political factions from the historic cities of York and Lancaster in the Kingdom of England's 32-years-long civil war in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487).
Revolution York tried for ten years to bring professional baseball back to the city. The process looked promising in 2003, until politics halted the project. The new baseball stadium was to be located at the Small Athletic Field, on York City School District property, but the district school board voted negatively as they did not believe the ballpark would be the best use of district money and land. For three years, political and financial discussions continued to delay the project. A new site for the stadium was agreed upon in the Arch Street neighborhood, and that plan was successful. Other sites that were considered but not chosen included Hoffman Field and the Ohio Blenders of PA, Inc.
In April 2006, the American minor league Atlantic League of Professional Baseball formally announced an expansion team for the city of York. One of the prominent members of the team's ownership group was Brooks Robinson, a Golden Glove award-winner, All-Star, and World Series champion third-baseman who played briefly with the minor league old York White Roses and later further south in the Major Leagues with the Baltimore Orioles of the American League from 1955 to 1977. In addition to Robinson memorials erected at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in southwest Downtown Baltimore, a statue of Robinson was erected and dedicated in York in the area outside the Arch Street stadium entrance named Brooks Robinson Plaza in his honor. Robinson died in 2023.
The Revolution's inaugural season saw the team finish third in the South Division with a record of 58–68. Their fortunes changed quickly, however, with 2008 bringing a first-place finish in the newly named Freedom Division and the franchise's first trip to the playoffs. The Revs were ousted early in the 2008 playoffs, but were back in 2010 when they won the Atlantic League championship, the first professional baseball title the city had won since the 1969 York Pirates of the Eastern League. The Revs took home the trophy again the next season in 2011, winning back-to-back championships and becoming just the second team in league history to accomplish the feat. They returned to the playoffs for a third straight season in 2012, but lost in the opening round.
In the 2009 preseason, the Revolution joined the two other Atlantic League teams in holding their spring training at home instead of the traditional site in Lakeland, Florida. The respective ownership groups of the three teams made this decision to cut costs during the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.
On March 24, 2014, the Revolution became the first professional baseball team to accept Bitcoins as a form of payment for ticket purchases.
On August 2, 2025, pitchers Tyler Palm, Ethan Firoved, Ian Churchill, Brendan Cellucci, Nick Mikolajchak, and Cam Robinson combined to record a franchise-record 20 strikeouts in a win over the Charleston Dirty Birds.
On June 18, 2026, the Revolution forfeited a game against the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs when they couldn't field the minimum-required nine players willing to wear the uniform jersey chosen for Pride Night. The team continued the other programming for the Pride event at WellSpan Park, pledged a $10,000 donation to the Rainbow Rose Center, and allowed ticket holders to use their tickets for another 2026 regular-season home game.
All-Star Games The Revolution hosted the 2011 Atlantic League All-Star Game at the four-year-old WellSpan Park on Arch Street on July 14, 2011. Seven Revs players were named to the All-Star team in addition to manager Andy Etchenbarren (former longtime player with the Baltimore Orioles), who skippered the Freedom Division. In front of a sellout crowd, two of those Revolution players, Corey Thurman and Val Majewski, helped to lead the Freedom Division to a 7–0 shutout over the Liberty Division. Thurman started the game, throwing two shutout innings and Majewski hit a solo homerun over the right field wall to start the scoring. Michael Hernandez of the Somerset Patriots ended up taking home the game's MVP award with a solo blast of his own and an RBI triple in the seventh inning. Prior to the game, Val Majewski participated in the home run derby and was a member of the winning team. The first pitch of the Atlantic League All-Star Game was thrown out by former local Dover High School and later National Football League Green Bay Packer player John Kuhn.
The Revolution again hosted the Atlantic League All-Star Game at WellSpan Park eight years later in July 2019.
Logos and uniforms
From 2007 to 2010, the York Revolution's team colors were navy blue, red, white, brass, and silver. The original brand focused exclusively on patriotic symbols such as the United States flag and the bald eagle national bird symbol of America. The team re-branded after four years for the 2011 season to the different look used today.
The current team colors of the York Revolution are navy blue, yellow, white, and silver. The "Revolution" wordmark is colored white in an industrial script centered on a navy blue background. The word "York" is featured above in white with a baseball standing in for the letter "o". The entire wordmark is outlined in silver. Centered above the wordmark is an American bald eagle holding a baseball bat.
The York Revolution wear caps produced by the firms of OC Sports and uniforms by New Balance. The caps are navy blue throughout with a stylized white "Y" topped with an eagle's head clutching a baseball. The entire cap logo is outlined in silver. The Revolution wordmark is centered on the back, lower edge of the cap. There is also an all yellow hat featuring the York "Y" being grasped by an eagle talon.
The home jerseys are white with navy blue and yellow paneling down the sides. They feature a navy blue cursive serif wordmark with a yellow outline that pays tribute to the Baltimore Orioles' style of script on their black / orange and white team jerseys. The Revolution away jersey is gray with navy blue and yellow paneling down the sides. Across the chest is the cursive "York" wordmark in navy blue outlined in yellow with a traditional underscore. The team also sports a third alternate jersey, which has changed numerous times over the years.
On June 18, 2026, the York Revolution forfeited a scheduled game after too many on its roster of 28 players were not willing to wear the game's rainbow-sleeved jerseys. The game had been scheduled as part of the team's 11th annual Pride in the Park event, which was still held.
Season-by-season records York RevolutionSeasonRecordWin %FinishManagerPlayoffs2007 58–68 .460 3rd Chris Hoiles Did not qualify for playoffs2008 71–69 .507 1st Chris Hoiles Lost Division Championship vs. Somerset Patriots, 2–02009 53–87 .379 4th Chris Hoiles/Sam Snider/Andy Etchebarren Did not qualify for playoffs2010 69–71 .493 2nd Andy Etchebarren Won Freedom Division vs. Somerset Patriots, 3–2 Won Atlantic League Championship vs. Bridgeport Bluefish, 3–02011 73–51 .589 1st Andy Etchebarren Won Freedom Division vs. Lancaster Barnstormers, 3–2 Won Atlantic League Championship vs. Long Island Ducks, 3–12012 79–61 .564 2nd Andy Etchebarren Lost Division Championship vs. Lancaster Barnstormers, 3–02013 65–75 .464 4th Mark Mason Did not qualify for playoffs2014 78–62 .557 3rd Mark Mason Lost Division Championship vs. Sugar Land Skeeters, 3–22015 64–75 .460 4th Mark Mason Did not qualify for playoffs2016 76–64 .543 1st Mark Mason Lost Division Championship vs. Sugar Land Skeeters, 3–02017 68–72 .486 2nd Mark Mason Won Freedom Division vs. Southern Maryland Bluecrabs, 3–1 Won Atlantic League Championship vs. Long Island Ducks, 3–02018 68–58 .540 3rd Mark Mason Did not qualify for playoffs2019 75–65 .534 1st Mark Mason Lost Division Championship vs. Sugar Land Skeeters, 3–1 2020 Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 56–64 .467 4th Mark Mason Did not qualify for playoffs 2022 56–76 .424 4th Mark Mason Did not qualify for playoffs 2023 71–54 .568 1st Rick Forney Did not qualify for playoffs2024 80–45 .640 1st Rick Forney Won North Division vs. Lancaster Stormers, 3–1 Won Atlantic League Championship vs. Charleston Dirty Birds, 3–02025 74–52 .587 1st Rick Forney Won North Division vs. Lancaster Stormers, 3–0 Won Atlantic League Championship vs. High Point Rockers, 3–1Totals 1,165–1,097 .515 —— 33–22 Playoff record5 North Division championships, 5 Atlantic League championships
Tradition
War of the Roses
The cities of Lancaster and York in South Central Pennsylvania, US have a historical rivalry in all sporting events from the high-school level to the professional. Since the cities are named after the English cities of Lancaster and York, their former Pennsylvania baseball teams were named for the opposing sides of the Wars of the Roses. As a metaphor, "War of the Roses" describes the intense baseball matches fought between the Lancaster Red Roses and the York White Roses. With the addition of York to the Atlantic League, the and now continue this tradition as they battle each other for lower Susquehanna supremacy.
The "War of the Roses" was rekindled with the sound of celebratory cannon fire at the start of the 2007 Atlantic League season in Wrightsville, a borough located on the Susquehanna River, the natural boundary between Lancaster and York counties. The winner of the War of the Roses is presented with the Community Cup, while the defeated team is obligated to sing the ballpark classic "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and plant a rose garden at the opponent's ballpark with their representative color: red for Lancaster, white for York. The first Community Cup was championed by the Stormers in the 2007 season, though the Revolution avenged them by winning it in 2008. The clubs also competed in the Route 30 Showdown in 2009–2011, an annual cross-county doubleheader inadvertently created after the 2008 season by a rain-delay.
+ Community Cup RecordYearSeries WinnerStormers WRevolution WNotes2007108first Community Cup2008911 2009146 20104162nd-earliest cup win; July 242011108 20121010Lancaster retains cup in a tie2013812 2014713first consecutive cup win2015151120161192017910 201810820198112020 Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic202112132022181420238132024418Earliest cup win; July 22025714Overall173201
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