Beginning last February, the Spinners (Boston's Single-A affiliate) offered to donate money for new uniforms to any local youth league willing to replace its Yankees with a team called the Spinners. Any team agreeing to change its name would be allowed to play on Lowell's home field before a Spinners game. According to the Boston Globe, about 75 Yankees teams in more than 35 communities in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire have been eliminated so far. The Globe reported: "So far the whole thing has cost the team more than $20,000, but if you ask the Spinners, it was money well spent. All along, the goal was to protect young Red Sox fans from the devastation that many feel when they find out they must wear pinstripes."