Gold Star cheese coneys sell for $3 and are covered with Cincinnati-style chili and mounds of shredded cheddar cheese. Snappy Tomato Pizza, Gold Star Chili, Montgomery Inn, and Glier’s Goetta are among many of the local brands found inside the facility. The concession items follow a local flare with several Cincinnati regional favorites predominantly featured on the menu boards. In an area dominated by the Reds, can the Freedom be successful at the gate in one of the country’s more historic baseball cities? The ballpark is within Cincinnati Reds territory and one of the many Frontier League franchises to be within a major league ball club’s foothold. The Florence Freedom provided an alternative to baseball in Cincinnati just a short 20-minute drive up the road.
The next season it debuted at Thomas More Stadium, a 4,200-seat ballpark directly off I-75. The ballpark opened in 2004 during the team’s second season (Foundation Field in Hamilton, Ohio, served as the club’s temporary home the year before) and has been offering fans of the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky area an alternative to Major League Baseball.įlorence, Kentucky became the home to minor league baseball for the first time in 2003 when it joined the Frontier League. The club plays its home games at the 4,200-seat Thomas More Stadium–formerly known as Champion Window Field– located off I-71/75 in Florence, Kentucky. The phrase is so popular that when Florence hosted the All-Star Game in 2016 it was renamed the Y’All-Star Game. And my baseball team would not even be the first sports thing named after it.Īlternatively, I could put one closer to my house and call it the “ODOT SUCKS.” May be better.The Florence Y’alls of the independent Frontier League was known as the Florence Freedom from 2003-2019 before new ownership sought a new nickname through an online fan vote–the winner was the Florence Y’alls, but why?įlorence is known for its red and white candy striped water tower that reads “Florence Y’all.” The popular sign has been a fixture since 1974 when it originally read Florence Mall, due to concerns about it being an advertisement for the mall, the town’s mayor simply repainted the M to give the town its popular catchphrase. Which is to say that, if I ever get a baseball team here in Ohio, I’m also gonna name it after a famous sign you see while driving on the interstate not too far from me: And I like the idea of naming a baseball team after a notable and much talked-about roadside sign. Y'alls is a culture, and Florence is its capital.
We listened: Introducing the Florence Y'alls. The folks who support the Frontier League baseball team in Florence no doubt realize the kind of chatter that surrounds that water tower, because they just voted to rename their team:
To warmer climes, southern charm and hospitality and, hopefully, a nice little trip. The point is that, if you’re from Ohio or Michigan or someplace and you see it, you know you’re on your way to Lexington or Louisville, or points south. The water tower is a nice welcome to Dixie, even if Kentucky isn’t really Dixie. Its top is painted with red and white stripes and, instead of featuring the town’s name or the name of the local water concern, it says, “Florence, Y’all.” If you’ve ever found yourself on I-75/71 in Kentucky, just over the river from Cincinnati, you’ve no doubt noticed the water tower for the city of Florence, Kentucky.
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