Logo of a minor league baseball team that plays in the Class AA Eastern League, the Richmond Flying Squirrels. The franchise, affiliated with the San Francisco Giants, has existed since 1972, but set up shop in Richmond just this season, returning minor league baseball to the Virginia city after a one year absence when the AAA Richmond Braves, a long-standing Braves affiliate, relocated to Lawrenceville, Georgia and became the Gwinnet Braves.