Northeast League (1997-1998) Northern League (1999-2000) Born: 1996 – Northeast League expansion franchise Suspended Operations: Postseason 2000 Moved: 2003 (North Shore Spirit) First Game: May
Northeast League (1995-1998) Northern League (1999-2002) Born: 1995 Folded: October 2002 First Game: Last Game: September 1, 2002 (L 3-2 @ Elmira Pioneers) Northeast League
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.
The Rhode Island Tiger Sharks were a One-Year Wonder during the summer of 1996 in the Northeast League, a now-defunct independent baseball circuit. The Tiger Sharks were one of six teams in the loop, competing against four clubs from New York, plus the Bangor Blue Ox from Maine. The team played at tiny McCarthy Field in West Warwick, Rhode Island, drawing miniscule crowds and finishing in last place with a 19-61 record.
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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