The Brooklyn Cyclones, who are eagerly anticipating their 10th anniversary season on Coney Island this June, are inviting young fans to participate in a unique art contest.

Local students between the ages of 5-16 will have the opportunity to submit a baseball-and/or-Brooklyn-themed jersey design for the club’s consideration, with the winning entry to be worn by the Cyclones as a special, limited-edition YOUniform, and auctioned off after a game to support Camp Brooklyn.

A Cyclones panel will select five {read more...}

The Brooklyn Cyclones have won a New York-Penn League championship, qualified for the playoffs six times and drawn nearly 2.5 million fans to Coney Island’s KeySpan Park during their first nine seasons as the New York Mets’ short-season Class A affiliate.

Season 10 holds the promise of bigger and better things to come for our borough’s first Major League-affiliate ball club since the Dodgers were whisked away to Los Angeles more than five decades ago.

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CONEY ISLAND (AP) — Wally Backman, a member of the World Champion 1986 Mets team, was named yesterday as manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones.

Unofficial reports had circulated earlier that Backman would be named as a manager within the Mets’ minor-league organization, but it was thought that he would be named to the double-A Binghamton farm team.

Several other members of the ’86 Mets previously managed the single-A Cyclones, including Howard Johnson, Tim Teufel and, most recently, {read more...}

Though he batted a mere .256 (55-for-215) with no homers, 15 doubles, 17 RBIs and 17 runs scored during a 58-game stint with Brooklyn the summer before last, Davis has since emerged as perhaps the top position player in the Mets’ Minor League system.

The 6-foot-5 Arizona State product turned 22 back in March and finally displayed the power at the plate that had the {read more...}

The 20-year-old Dominican right-hander went 3-2 with a 3.49 ERA in 11 starts for Brooklyn during the 2008 season.

Mejia graduated through two levels in the parent-club Mets’ system this year, going a combined 4-6 with a 3.14 ERA in 19 starts for Class A Advanced St. Lucie of the Florida State League and Double-A Binghamton in the Eastern League.

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It was appropriate that Pedro Lopez wasn't around to see his Cyclones go gently into post-season elimination.

After all, the feisty first-year skipper displayed a win-at-all-costs, die-hard attitude throughout Brooklyn’s 78-game grind, which ended quite unceremoniously at Eastwood Field in Niles, Ohio – off all places -- on Wednesday night.

Lopez, who guided the Cyclones to a franchise-record 16-2 start and had them in first place for three months before a late-summer swoon forced them to settle for the New {read more...}

Don’t blame Mark Cohoon for the Cyclones’ 3-1 loss to Mahoning Valley in Game 1 of the best-of-3 New York-Penn League semifinals at KeySpan Park on Tuesday night.

A week shy of his 22nd birthday, the Burleson, Texas native struck out eight over seven strong innings, but was undone by an uncharacteristically shaky Brooklyn defense as the once-formidable Baby Bums continued to fade toward almost certain elimination.

Hosting their first playoff game since 2007, the Cyclones {read more...}

The greatest thing about the playoffs is that every team that qualifies gets to start all over again with the same exact record: 0-0.

That’s why the Brooklyn Cyclones had to bring a short memory into last night’s post-season opener at what promised to be a sold-out KeySpan Park in Coney Island.

After beginning the summer with a franchise-best 16-2 mark, boasting the top starting staff in the New York-Penn League and leading the McNamara Division virtually all summer, the Baby Bums limped to a poor finish while the rival Staten Island Yankees {read more...}

New York Mets All-Star center fielder Carlos Beltran looked right at home in the batter’s box at KeySpan Park on Wednesday night.

The Brooklyn Cyclones, however, found themselves in unfamiliar territory after a 4-2 loss to visiting Hudson Valley.

While Beltran reacquainted himself with the game he’s been forced to miss for approximately 2½ months in front of 8,549 star-struck Brooklyn baseball fans, the Baby Bums woke up in second place Thursday morning for the first time since {read more...}

The Brooklyn Cyclones don’t have to keep staring in their rear-view mirror.

But it must be hard no to.

After all, even if first-year manager Pedro Lopez’s team is unable to hold off red-hot Staten Island in the suddenly skin-tight race for the McNamara Division crown, the Cyclones are still a virtual shoe-in to qualify as the New York-Penn League’s wild card.

But that doesn’t mean the Baby Bums are the least bit interested in “backing in� to the post-season.

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Carlos Beltran knows a thing or two about late-season collapses.

While the Brooklyn Cyclones’ lead in the New York-Penn League’s McNamara Division continues to dwindle, Beltran, one of several notable Mets to land on the disabled list this season, will patrol center field in KeySpan Park Wednesday night in an attempt to work his way back into Major League shape.

Of course, New York’s star center fielder was part of back-to-back epic September meltdowns in Flushing the previous two {read more...}

Mets setup man J.J. Putz never showed up for his rehabilitation assignment in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, as the parent club decided to shut the right-hander down for the season after an MRI revealed “some new fraying and a slight tear� in his right forearm.

Fortunately for the 7,596 fans who showed up at KeySpan Park, Collin McHugh did take his scheduled turn in the McNamara Division-leading Cyclones rotation.

McHugh became the New York-Penn League third eight-game winner, joining teammate {read more...}

The New York Mets have been waiting nearly half a century for their first no-hitter. Their short-season affiliate on Coney Island doesn’t have that problem.

Brandon Moore permanently etched his name in the Brooklyn history books Sunday afternoon at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, Md., firing the Cyclones’ first-ever no-hitter in a 5-0 whitewashing of the IronBirds in the opener of a doubleheader.

Though it was only a seven-inning affair, the Minor Leagues do recognize no-hitters of less than nine {read more...}