Category: New York-Penn League

Auburn Phillies New York-Penn League Baseball

Auburn Phillies

Falcon Park in Auburn, New York was often the first rung of the Minor League ladder for Philadelphia Phillies prospects during the mid-1970’s. Comparatively few of the teenage ballplayers who came through Auburn ever made it to the Majors, but Auburn Phillies alumni Lonnie Smith and Dickie Noles both developed into key contributors to the Philadelphia’s 1980 World Series championship team.

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Elmira Suns New York-Penn League

Elmira Suns

To be a baseball fan in Elmira, New York is to be a Pioneers fan. The local nine have been the Pioneers in league after league since 1935 with only a few short interruptions. Today we look at the most unusual of those detours: the two-year reign of Lou Eliopulos, the retired cemetery operator who dreamed of a nationwide chain of Suns-branded minor league baseball teams and ever so briefly made it happen.

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1991 Watertown Indians Baseball Program from the New York-Penn League

Watertown Indians

The Watertown Indians franchise represented a second chance at Minor League Baseball for the small (pop. 29,000) upstate New York community of Watertown during the winter of the 1988-89. Early that year the city lost its previous New York-Penn League franchise, the Watertown Pirates, when that club’s absentee owners moved the team to Welland, Ontario. A group of local investors successfully appealed to New York-Penn League officials for a new franchise when the league expanded from 12 to 14 clubs that winter. The Indians stayed for ten summers, winning a New York-Penn League title in 1995, before moving to Staten Island in 1999.

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Williamsport Cubs New York-Penn League

Williamsport Cubs

New York-Penn League (1994-1998) Born: November 18, 1993 – The Geneva Cubs relocate to Williamsport, PA Re-Branded: November 12, 1998 (Williamsport Crosscutters) First Game: June

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Illustration of pitcher Tom Seaver on the cover of a 1992 Pittsfield Mets baseball program from the New York-Penn League

Pittsfield Mets

New York-Penn League (1989-2000) Born: January 14, 1989 – The Little Falls Mets relocate to Pittsfield, MA Affiliation Change: October 1, 2000 (Pittsfield Astros) First

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