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.
The small town of Newark in Western New York hosted New York-Penn League baseball from 1968 until 1987. The town’s first NY-Penn League ball club owed its unusual name to its original Major League parent organization, the Seattle Pilots. The Pilots, a doomed American League expansion club, lasted for only one season in 1969. After the Pilots relocated to Wisconsin in 1970 and became the Milwaukee Brewers, the Co-Pilots retained the now obsolete name for another decade, mostly as a Brewers farm club.
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