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 Texas City Stars were an obscure minor league baseball team that lasted for just one season in the summer of 1977. The Stars were part of the Lone Star League, a Texas-only circuit that played at the Class A level. All six Lone Star League clubs were “independent”, meaning they had no Major League parent club affiliations. The Stars had a record of 35-41 in their only season of play, good for 5th place in the six-team league. The entire Lone Star League effectively folded after the first place Corpus Christi Seagulls refused to play in the 1977 playoffs for financial reasons.
New York-Penn League (1977-2001) Born: 1981 – Re-branded from Utica Blue Jays Moved: 2001 (Aberdeen Ironbirds) First Game: June 19, 1981 (W 5-4 @ Little Falls Mets)
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