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1983 Lynn Pirates baseball program from the Eastern League

Lynn Pirates

August 20, 2018

This Pittsburgh Pirates’ Class AA farm club lasted only season at Fraser Field in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1983. The Pirates followed on the heels of the Lynn Sailors (1980-1982), a Seattle Mariners affiliate that struggled to find an audience in the small, economically depressed city north of Boston. The club’s box office was so weak that the Pirates were asked to play all of their playoff dates on the road. Despite this disadvantage, the Lynn Pirates advanced to the Eastern League championship series in their only summer of play. The ball club moved to Burlington, Vermont in 1984.

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1982 Lynn Sailors program from the Eastern League

Lynn Sailors

October 16, 2011

The Lynn Sailors were a Class AA Eastern League Farm Club of the Seattle Mariners from 1980 through 1982. The arrival of the Sailors in 1980 marked the return of professional baseball to Lynn, Massachusetts’ Fraser Field for the first time since the departure of the Lynn Tigers in 1949. Following the 1982 season, the Mariners withdrew from Lynn and the Pittsburgh Pirates became Lynn’s new parent organization. The 1983 Lynn Pirates season would turn out to be the final summer that the North Shore community would host affiliated Minor League Baseball as the former Sailors/Pirates franchise moved to Burlington, Vermont in 1984.

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