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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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1986 Watertown Pirates baseball program from the New York-Penn League

Watertown Pirates

The Watertown Pirates were the short season Class A farm club of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the New York-Penn League for six seasons from 1983 through 1988. Several future Major League stars came through Watertown during the Pirates era, including Jay Buhner (1984), Moises Alou (1986 & 1987) and Tim Wakefield (1988). The Watertown Indians replaced the Pirates for the 1989 NY-Penn League season.

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