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The league was renamed as the Eastern League in 1938 when the Scranton Miners of Scranton, Pennsylvania, moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and became the Hartford Bees. The league has had teams in a total of 52 different cities, located in 12 different states and two Canadian provinces. The league consisted of six to eight teams from 1923 until 1993.
Eastern League (1938–present), a minor league established in 1923 and renamed Eastern League in 1938, at the Double-A level; Eastern League (1916–1932), a minor league that last operated at the Class B and Class A levels; Eastern League (1892–1911), operating name of the International League before 1912; Eastern League (1884–1887), a ...
In place of the Eastern League, MLB created the Double-A Northeast, a 12-team circuit divided into two divisions. [5] Prior to the 2022 season, MLB renamed the Double-A Northeast as the Eastern League, and it carried on the history of the league prior to reorganization. [6] In 2021, the Double-A Northeast held a best-of-five series between the ...
The Eastern League has operated primarily in the Northeastern United States since 1923. It was known as the New York–Pennsylvania League from 1923 to 1937 and the Double-A Northeast in 2021. Over that 102-season span, its teams relocated, changed names, transferred to different leagues, or ceased operations altogether.
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In 1886, the Bisons moved into minor league baseball as members of the original International League, then known as the Eastern League. (An "outlaw" team also known as the Buffalo Bisons played in the Players' League , an upstart third major league, in 1890, but that team is not considered part of the Bisons history.)
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The club was established in 1923 as a charter member of the New York–Pennsylvania League.The team was called the Williamsport Billies by the local media. [1] Other names found in local papers included the Bald Eagles, Hinchmanites, and even the Bills, a name later adopted by the Eastern League clubs in the 1980s.