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Jersey City Indians

The Jersey City Indians were a dreadful Class AA farm club of the Cleveland Indians that competed for just one season in the Eastern League during the summer of 1977. The ball club arrived in town in February 1977, transplanted from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, just two months prior to opening day. The move marked the return of professional baseball to Jersey City for the first time since the departure of the triple-A Jersey City Jerseys in 1961.

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Jersey Jays Continental Football League

Jersey Jays

The Jersey Jays were a short-lived minor league football team that played first in Newark and later in Jersey City in 1969 and 1970. The Jays briefly worked as a farm club for the NFL’s Cleveland Browns and – maybe/kinda/sorta – signed or worked out E Street Band legend Clarence “Big Man” Clemons.

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