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 Sullivan County Mountain Lions independent baseball team was a One-Year Wonder that played in the tiny hamlet of Mountain Dale (pop. 869) in New York’s Hudson Valley region during the summer of 1995. The Lions’ Baxter Stadium was named after Ruth Baxter, whose claim to fame was purchasing the very first pair of Mountain Lions season tickets. “She essentially got naming rights and season tickets for $125,” former Cougars President Mike McGuire recalled in 2015.
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