The Rockford Expos were an Illinois-based Class A farm club of the Montreal Expos from 1988 until 1992. When Rockford’s owners were awarded a Midwest League expansion franchise in June 1987, it marked the return of professional baseball to the city for the first time since the departure of the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1954.
The Newark Orioles were a short-season Class A farm club of the Baltimore Orioles during the mid-1980’s. The club played in the tiny village of Newark, New York (pop. 10,000), not the urban metropolis of Newark, New Jersey. The community had a previous entry in the New York-Penn League, the Co-Pilots, that operated from 1968 until 1979.
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