Category: Northern League 1993

2000 Catskill Cougars Baseball Program from the Northern League

Catskill Cougars

The Catskill Cougars were an on-again, off-again minor league baseball team that floated through several independent (non-Major League affiliated) pro baseball leagues during the late 1990’s. The Cougars played at Baxter Stadium in the tiny hamlet of Mountain Dale, New York (pop. 869). They opened for business in 1996, following on the heels of the short-lived Sullivan Mountain Lions (1995), who left town a few months earlier after just one summer of play.

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Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks Northern League

Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks

Northern League (1993-1998) Born: 1993 – Northern League founding franchise Moved: September 25, 1998 (Schaumburg Flyers) First Game: June 15, 1993 (L 4-3 @ Sioux

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1997 Allentown Ambassadors baseball program from the Northeast League

Allentown Ambassadors

The Allentown Ambassadors were part of the tortured history of pro baseball in the Lehigh Valley region of Eastern Pennsylvania during the 1990’s and early 2000’s. The area last had pro ball in 1960 when the Allentown Red Sox of the Eastern League left town. The Ambassadors came into existence as one of two competing baseball projects in Allentown and nearby Bethlehem in the mid-90’s.

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2002 Berkshire Black Bears baseball program from the Northern League

Berkshire Black Bears

The Berkshire Black Bears were an effort to establish independent professional baseball at historic Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Black Bears arrived in Pittsfield in 2002, close on the heels of the departing Pittsfield Astros of the Major League-affiliated New York-Penn League. Former Boston Red Sox slugger George “Boomer” Scott, who starred for the Pittsfield Red Sox clubs of the 1960’s, managed the Black Bears. The franchise left town after two seasons, moving to New Haven, Connecticut in 2004.

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Adirondack Lumberjacks Northern League Baseball

Adirondack Lumberjacks

The Adirondack Lumberjacks were an independent baseball team based out of Glens Falls, New York from 1995 until 2002. Glens Falls hosted Class AA minor league farm clubs of the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers from 1980 until 1988, plus a Class A St. Louis Cardinals farm team in 1993. But by the mid-1990’s the city’s East Field no longer met modern standards for affiliated Minor League Baseball. Glens Falls was a classic example of a community left behind by the minor league stadium boom of the 1990’s. Like many such communities, it turned to independent ball to fill the void.

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