Swing of the Quad Cities

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Team History

The Swing of the Quad Cities is a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals, that plays in the Midwest League. Its home games are played in Davenport, Iowa.

The club became part of the Midwest League in 1960 and was affiliated with the Milwaukee Braves for its first two seasons before joining the farm system of the new Los Angeles (later California) Angels for the 1962 season. Except for a five-year affiliation with the Chicago Cubs (1979-84), the Angels stayed in the Quad Cities through the 1992 season. The team was affiliated with the Houston Astros from 1993 to 1998 and the Minnesota Twins from 1999 to 2004 before joining the Cardinals' farm system for the 2005 season.

The team used the nickname of its major-league parent through the 1991 season. It was known as the Quad City River Bandits from 1992 through the 2003 season. On October 20, 2003, the team was renamed the Swing of the Quad Cities; the nickname, like the previous one, was chosen as the winning entry in a "name the team" contest.

The club's home ballpark is John O'Donnell Stadium, located on the Mississippi River in downtown Davenport. The park has undergone several renovations since opening in 1931, most recently undergoing a major renovation prior to the 2004 season that brought the facility to professional baseball standards. The renovations included a nine-foot-high berm that provides a lawn seating area for fans, which also acts as a floodwall around the entire stadium. Before, the stadium had no flood protection from Mississippi River flooding. At times the team had to play home games at other parks - such as the one located in Clinton, Iowa - whenever the river flooded. During the Great Flood of 1993, photos of water creeping across the playing field at John O'Donnell made national publications and became one of the symbols of the flood.

The team's attendance record of 260,471 was set in 1994.

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