Staten Island Yankees
November 14, 2020
New York-Penn League (1999-2019) Born: 1999 – The Watertown Indians relocate to Staten Island, New York Contracted by Major League Baseball: November 2020 Folded: December 3,
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Newark Orioles
November 9, 2020
The Newark Orioles were a short-season Class A farm club of the Baltimore Orioles during the mid-1980’s. The club played in the tiny village of Newark, New York (pop. 10,000), not the urban metropolis of Newark, New Jersey. The community had a previous entry in the New York-Penn League, the Co-Pilots, that operated from 1968 until 1979.
New Jersey Cardinals
August 27, 2020
New York-Penn League (1994-2005) Born: 1993 – The Glens Falls Redbirds relocate to Augusta, NJ Moved: October 3, 2005 (State College Spikes) First Game: June
Williamsport Red Sox
July 26, 2020
The Williamsport Red Sox were a short-lived farm team of the Boston Red Sox based out of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Williamsport was part of the short-season Class A New York-Penn League at the time, playing a 70-game schedule that stretched from late June to Labor Day weekend. Six future Major Leaguers played at Bowman Field during the Red Sox’ two-year tenancy, including future Hall-of-Famer Jim Rice.
Queens Kings
March 28, 2020
The Queens Kings were a cutely-named placeholder franchise operated by the New York Mets in the Class A New York-Penn League during the summer of 2000. The team played at the newly constructed Ballpark at St. John’s on the campus of St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York. The team’s residence in Queens was temporary by design. In September 1999 the ownership of the New York Mets purchased the Toronto Blue Jays’ NY-Penn farm club in St. Catharines, Ontario. The Mets’ intention was to take over as parent club and move the team to a new 6,500-seat ballpark on Coney Island. But the Blue Jays affiliation had one more season to run and KeySpan Park in Brooklyn wouldn’t be ready until 2001. So this created the unusual situation of the New York Mets owning and operating a Toronto Blue Jays farm team in New York City during the summer of 2000.