The Corning Royals were a minor league baseball team located in

Corning, New York Corning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River. The population was 10,551 at the 2020 census. It is named for Erastus Corning, an Albany financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company t ...

. The team played in the

New York–Penn League The New York–Penn League (NYPL) was a Minor League Baseball league that operated in the northeastern United States from 1939 to 2020. Classified as a Class A Short Season league, its season started in June, after major-league teams signed th ...

. Their home stadium was Corning Memorial Stadium. In contrast to most other New York–Penn teams, the Corning franchise never developed its own brand or identity, always naming itself after its parent club; even in the one year the team had no major league affiliation, instead of establishing a name for itself, it simply referred to itself as the Independents.

History

The team was first founded in 1951 as the Corning Athletics or Corning A's as an affiliate of the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1953 the team had no major league affiliation and was called the Corning Independents. However the team began and affiliation with the

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and were known as the Corning Red Sox each year until 1960, with the exception of 1959, when they were named the Corning Cor-Sox. The team then went inactive until 1968 when the city became an affiliate of the expansion Kansas City Royals, and was named the Corning Royals before folding again in 1969.

Notable alumni

* Galen Cisco (1958) *

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(1955) 3 x MLB All-Star *

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(1955-1956) 4 x MLB All-Star * Paul Splittorff (1968) MLB All-Star *

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