Lancaster County Baseball stock certificate 1959 (Pennsylvania)

Rare minor league baseball certificate. Nice eagle vignette at the top.. Issued and not cancelled. Dated 1959. Measures approximately 10.5 by 8 inches.

The Lancaster County Baseball Corporation was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1958 for The Lancaster Red Roses. The team was affiliated with the Detroit Tigers at this time and lasted until 1961.

The Red Roses joined the Piedmont League in 1954, and were affiliated with the Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics from 1954–1955 season. They became members of the Eastern League in 1958, and were affiliated with the Detroit Tigers for the 1958–1959 season, the Chicago Cubs from 1959 to 1961, and spent their last season ever in 1961 as an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Today’s Lancaster Stormers (formerly Barnstormers), formerly the Barnstormers (2005-2023), are a successful Atlantic League baseball team, rebranded in 2024 to honor the city's "storming" past while modernizing with a bull mascot, keeping core colors and the iconic "L".

Baseball first came to Lancaster County in the 1860s by soldiers returning home from the Civil War. The very first professional baseball teams in Lancaster were the Lancaster Lancasters and the Lancaster Ironsides. The Lancasters played in the Keystone Association while the Ironsides played in the Eastern League, both starting in 1884.

The following season, the Lancasters joined the Eastern League, and the two teams became rivals. The teams finally agreed to play each other at the end of the 1884 season, in which the Ironsides defeated the Lancasters after seven very close games. Only the Lancasters continued to play the next season.

In the 1894-1895 seasons, a team called the Lancaster Chicks played in the Keystone Association. An all-African-American team called the Lancaster Giants followed in 1887, and many Lancastrians supported the team despite the social pressure of the day.

Between 1896 and 1899, the first team called the Lancaster Maroons played in the original Atlantic League. In 1905, the second inception of the Maroons played in the Tri-State League. In 1906, the Maroons became the Lancaster Red Roses. The rival White Roses from the nearby city of York reacted with fury to the name change, since both teams took their names from the opposing factions in England's historic Wars of the Roses.

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