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{{Baseball_team
| color1 = white
| pixels = 150px
| founded = 2001
| league = Southeastern League<br>([[2001]]-[[2004]] )<br/> Central Baseball League<br>([[2004]]-[[2005]] )<br/>American Association<br>([[2006]]-present)
| history = Pensacola Pelicans<br>[[2006]]-present
| ballpark = [[Pelican Park]]
| mascot = Scoop
}}
The '''Pensacola Pelicans''' are a local minor league baseball team playing in the [[Wikipedia:American Association of Independent Professional Baseball|American Association]]. The team plays its home games at [[Pelican Park]]. The team is Pelicans are scheduled to move to [[Community Maritime Park]] in 2009.
The Pensacola Pelicans were incorporated in [[2001]], when the Southeastern League decided to place a team in the Pensacola area. Midway through the [[2002]] season, Area businessmen [[Quint Studer|Quint]] and [[Rishy Studer]] bought the team from the leaguemidway through the [[2002]] season. The 2002 season was a very successful one for the Pelicans; they had finished with the league's best record in the league and won the championship in an extra-innings victory against the Montgomery Wings. The 2003 season was also successful, with the Pelicans once again claiming the league's best record, but losing to the Baton Rouge Riverbats in the championship series.
Before the [[2004]] season, the Orlando Rays of the Southern League moved to Montgomery, Alabama, the location of a key Southeastern League franchise. Unable to compete with an affiliated baseball club in one of its key cities, the Southeastern League folded, and the Pelicans were left without a league in which to play.
==Schedules and scores==
*[[Pensacola Pelicans in 2007|2007]] ==Current roster==
==External links==
* [http://www.aabfan.com/league/ aabfan.com] - yearly league standings & awards
[[Category:Sports teams]][[Category:Community Maritime Park]]
