Florence Freedom

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The Florence Freedom is a minor league baseball team which plays in Florence, Kentucky, in Cincinnati's Northern Kentucky suburbs. The team is a member of the Independent Frontier League, and is associated with no Major League Baseball team.

Before 2003, the team was in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and known as the Johnstown Johnnies. It played its 2003 home games in Hamilton, Ohio, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati, while the ownership group was building a new stadium (Champion Windows Field) in Florence.

In 2004, the owner of the Freedom was charged with fraud. Creditors building the stadium were out more than $3 million. In 2005, the team was bought by Northern Kentucky businessmen Clint Brown.

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