Bridgeport Bluefish
October 26, 2020
The Bridgeport Bluefish were enjoyed a 20-year run in the Atlantic League, the top independent pro baseball league in the United States, between 1998 and 2017. The arrival of the Bluefish in 1998 and the concurrent opening of the $19 million Ballpark at Harbor Yard on an abandoned industrial brownfield was a center piece of public/private efforts to revitalize downtown Bridgeport in the late 1990’s. The ‘Fish won their first and only championship in the summer of 1999. Years of declining attendance and the deteriorating condition of the Ballpark at Harbor Yard contributed to the team’s closure at the end of the 2017 season.
