Auburn Americans
May 28, 2016
The Auburn Americans were a co-op minor league baseball team that played for one season in the New York-Penn League in the summer of 1980. Co-op teams don’t have a player development contract with one Major League club. Instead they cobble together a roster from several Major League organizations. The arrangement is largely a relic of the past now, but was relatively common in the 1970’s and early 1980’s, particularly in small communities with sub-standard ballparks. The Americans departed for Erie, Pennsylvania in 1981 leaving Auburn with pro baseball for the first summer since 1957.
