The Queens Kings took the field in 2000 as a Short-Season A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays in the New York-Penn League, bringing professional baseball to Queens for a brief but notable chapter. Playing at the Ballpark at St. John’s University, the Kings compiled an impressive 46–29 record in their lone season and featured several players who would go on to reach the major leagues. After just one year, the franchise relocated and brought baseball back to Brooklyn as the Brooklyn Cyclones, closing the book on the Queens Kings’ short existence. Though their time was limited, the club who had an identity ahead of its time remains a unique footnote in Queens’ layered baseball history.