Category: New York-Penn League

1994 Vermont Expos baseball program from the New York-Penn League

Vermont Expos

July 5, 2015

The Vermont Expos, based in Burlington, were the short-season Class A farm club of the Montreal Expos during the final decade of that Major League club’s existence.  The Expos won their lone New York-Penn League crown during their third season of play in 1996. The Montreal Expos moved to Washington, D.C. after the 2004 season and became the Washington Nationals.  Thanks to a delay in re-branding the ball club, Vermont played one final season under the Expos nickname in 2005.  A contest to re-name the team drew more than 30,000 entries in 2005 and resulted in the club’s new identity as the Vermont Lake Monsters beginning in 2006.

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Oneonta Tigers New York-Penn League

Oneonta Tigers

November 2, 2014

New York-Penn League (1999-2009) Born: October 7, 1998 – Affiliation change from Oneonta Yankees Moved: January 27, 2010 (Connecticut Tigers) First Game: June 16, 1999 (W 4-3

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

Watertown Pirates

July 15, 2014

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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Oneonta Red Sox

April 7, 2014

The Oneonta Red Sox were a Class A farm club in the New York-Penn League for one season during the summer of 1966.  A previous incarnation of the Oneonta Red Sox played in the Class C Can-Am League from 1946 to 1951. Following the 1966 season, Oneonta left the Red Sox organization to begin a 31-year affiliation with the rival New York Yankees.

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2001 Pittsfield Astros baseball program from the New York-Penn League

Pittsfield Astros

February 3, 2014

Longtime Pittsfield Mets owner Bill Gladstone went looking for city help to modernize ancient Wahconah Park in the late 1990’s and came up empty.  But just over the border in Troy, New York Gladstone found political partners willing to build a new $12 million ballpark for his Class A New York-Penn League ball club that would be ready in time for the 2002 season. By the time Gladstone signed a new Major League affiliation agreement with the Houston Astros in October 2000, the plan to relocate to Troy was already in place.  So the newly re-named Pittsfield Astros were a lame duck operation by design, destined to spend only one summer in Pittsfield before moving on to greener pastures.

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