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The Ottawa Rapidz were formed in 2008 to take advantage of organized baseball having abandoned the city of Ottawa, ON with the departure of the Ottawa Lynx to Allentown, PA following the 2007 International League season. The team is owned by veteran minor-league operator Miles Wolff, who owns the Capitales de Québec, also in the Canadian-American Association. The team will play its games in Ottawa Stadium, which was built when the Lynx were formed in 1993.
The team's original logo existed in both a French and English version
The Rapidz are also known as the
Rapidz d’Ottawa in French, reflecting the Ottawa area’s bilingual population. The team was originally called the more orthographically correct
Rapids("les Rapides" in French) but changed its name a few weeks before playing its first game, likely in order not to need two different logos. The new name makes little sense in French however, as the French name should be pronounced "Rapid'", the extra "z" being completely incongruous. The team announced that it would alternate between the two during the season. It hired veteran minor league manager
Ed Nottle as its first skipper and signed two veteran Canadian minor-leaguers,
Mike Kusiewicz and
Jeremy Ware, as its first players. The team’s inaugural game is scheduled for
May 22,
2008.
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