St. Francis Silverbacks

Class C baseball in Saint Francis, Minnesota

The St. Francis Silverbacks are an amateur baseball club from Saint Francis, Minnesota, playing Class C in the Eastern Minny South League under the Minnesota Baseball Association. They went 9-5 in 2026 under manager Luke Scardigli at the St. Francis High School field.

A silverback is an adult male mountain gorilla, native to the Virunga mountains of central Africa, roughly eight thousand miles from Anoka County. It joins the Lakefield Horned Frogs and the Searles Grizzlies in the small set of Minnesota clubs named after animals that have never been within a continent of the state.

Seventeen classification points is upper Class C for a city of about eight thousand five hundred.

The East Bethel Bandits also play at a St. Francis high school field, though at a different address on Rum River Boulevard. Two clubs in this league use Saint Francis school grounds and only one of them is named after the town.

A mountain gorilla native to central Africa, adopted by a city in Anoka County. High Cheese gives St. Francis the page to own the distance.