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1980 West Haven Whitecaps Baseball Program from the Eastern League

West Haven Whitecaps

November 3, 2019

In late 1979, the New York Yankees moved their Class AA minor league affiliate from West Haven, Connecticut to Nashville in the Southern League. West Haven lost the Yankees, but it didn’t lose baseball.  New owner David R. Goldstein secured rights to West Haven and signed an affiliation with the Oakland Athletics.  It must have seemed a dubious exchange for Western Connecticut baseball fans, living just over an hour outside the Bronx.  Their four-time Eastern League champion Yankees were gone, replaced by an Oakland farm system mired in the decrepitude of the dying days of the Charlie O. Finley regime.

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1979 West Haven Yankees baseball program from the Eastern League

West Haven Yankees

December 10, 2011

West Haven, Connecticut hosted the Double-A farm club of the New York Yankees for eight summers from 1972 through 1979.  During this era West Haven helped to develop future Major League stars including Ron Guidry, LaMarr Hoyt, Willie McGee and Dave Rightetti. The W-H Yankees were a powerhouse in the Eastern League during this era, winning league titles in 1972, 1976, 1977 and 1979. The franchise moved to Lynn, Massachusetts following the 1979 season.

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1982 West Haven A's Baseball Program from the Eastern League

West Haven A’s

June 6, 2011

The West Haven A’s were a Connecticut-based Class AA farm club of the distant Oakland Athletics during the early 1980’s. The franchise entered the Eastern League as an expansion team and A’s affiliate in 1980. For the 1980 season only, the club was known as the West Haven Whitecaps. The Whitecaps were absolutely wretched, finishing 1980 with the 2nd worst record in all of minor league baseball (47-92). In 1982 West Haven won the Eastern League championship, but the franchise moved to Albany shortly afterwards.

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