The Williamsport Bills were a Class AA Eastern League baseball affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, and New York Mets from 1987 to 1991 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in the United States. They played their games in Bowman Field, which is currently home to the Williamsport Crosscutters, a charter member of the MLB Draft League. The Bills began playing in 1987 as the AA affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, became an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners in 1989, and played their final season in 1991 as part of the New York Mets organization. Over their five-season history, the Bills did not win an Eastern League championship. Notable former Bills players and managers include Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, who would go on to manage the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series, Mike Hargrove, who managed the Cleveland Indians in the World Series in 1995 and 1997, Turner Gill, former Nebraska quarterback and former head football coach of the Kansas Jayhawks, two-time All-Star Tino Martinez, and Dave Bresnahan who was ejected from a game for throwing a potato into left field during a faked pick-off of a runner at third base. Indians farm team The Bills were the AA farm team of the Cleveland Indians for two seasons. The franchise began play in 1987, having moved from Waterbury, Connecticut, to Williamsport. The two seasons under the leadership of managers Steve Swisher, Orlando Gomez, and Mike Hargrove, were largely unsuccessful, with the team finishing in seventh (1987) and sixth place (1988) in an eight-team league. Future major leaguers Jeff Shaw, Tom Lampkin, and Bernardo Brito were part of the teams during the two years that the Williamsport Bills were affiliated with the Cleveland Indians. The potato incident The franchise's most notable game took place in 1987. Dave Bresnahan was catching for the Bills, who were in seventh place in an eight-team league, playing the last-place Reading Phillies in late-August game. With a runner on third base, Bresnahan switched catcher's mitts and put on a glove in which he had secreted a shaved-down potato. When the pitch came in, Bresnahan fired the white potato down the third-base line, enticing the runner to sprint home. Bresnahan then tagged the runner with the baseball, prompting the umpire to award the runner home plate for Bresnahan's deception. The president of the Eastern League took offense to what he perceived as Bresnahan's affront to the game,