# Ask Lex · @foxystvtime · tell me history  
**Published:** 2026-04-24T23:00:32.000Z  
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Great question from @FoxysTVTime on YouTube - they want to know about the history of the Lexington Legends, and they mentioned their opening game is tonight!

Well, actually their home opener isn't until tomorrow night, Friday, but I love talking about the Legends' story. They started back in two thousand one as an expansion franchise in the South Atlantic League, taking over the Houston Astros affiliation from a team that had folded. What's amazing is they had this incredible first season - ninety-two wins and forty-eight losses, finishing first in the sixteen-team league.

That's quite a debut season! What about that ballpark on Legends Lane?

Legends Field opened that same year, twenty-o-one, built for thirteen and a half million dollars through private financing. It seats about seven thousand people and sits about a mile north of downtown, near Rupp Arena. You know, it's had several names over the years - started as Applebee's Park, then became Whitaker Bank Ballpark, and now it's back to Legends Field.

I remember hearing about some famous players coming through there.

Oh absolutely! Back in two thousand six, Roger Clemens came out of retirement to pitch for the Houston Astros, and he made a rehab appearance with the Legends - his son Koby was playing for the team at the time. That put Lexington baseball on the national map for a while.

And they're still going strong after all these years?

They've had quite a journey. They were affiliated with Houston through twenty-twelve, then the Kansas City Royals through twenty-twenty. When Major League Baseball restructured the minors, they joined the Atlantic League as an independent team in twenty twenty-one. Tomorrow night's their home opener at seven p.m., with postgame fireworks - should be a great way to kick off their twenty-sixth season.

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