Bangor Blue Ox
March 5, 2014
The Bangor Blue Ox were a short-lived professional baseball team that played for two seasons in the independent Northeast League in 1996 and 1997. At the time, the small city of Bangor, Maine had not hosted pro baseball since prior to World War I. The team’s unique nickname derived from the legend of Paul Bunyan and his companion Babe, the Blue Ox. Bangor is one of several communities that claims to be the birthplace of the folkloric hero and the city boasts a 31-foot tall, 3,700-pount statue of Bunyan. The franchise went dark in 1998 and was sold and relocated to Quebec City the following year.
