Business View Magazine | February 2018

144 145 P NC Field is a Minor League Baseball stadium located in Moosic, Pennsylvania that serves the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. “Formerly known as Lackawanna County Stadium, PNC Field was built in 1989,” states Josh Olerud, Chief Operating Officer and Team President of the Scranton/Wil- kes-Barre RailRiders, the Triple-A affiliate of the NewYorkYankees. “Minor League Baseball moved to northeastern Pennsylvania with the Philadelphia Phillies for the 1989 season and we were a Philadelphia affiliate until 2006,” Olerud added.“Then, in 2007, the Yankees came to town.”That same year, Lackawanna County also sold the naming rights to its stadium to PNC Bank. Since its initial construction, PNC Field, originally an artificial turf-surfaced stadium, has been used for a variety of events. It has hosted Minor League Baseball, re- gional band competitions, ice skat- ing, car shows, flea markets, as well as high school and college sports. Today, in addition to 70 RailRiders home games, it hosts an additional 150 events annually, including all PNC FIELD COMPLETELY MODERNIZED AT A GLANCE PNC FIELD WHAT: A Minor League Baseball stadium WHERE: Moosic, Pennsylvania WEBSITE: www.milb.com/index. jsp?sid=t531