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The Lynn Sailors were an American minor league baseball team affiliated with the Seattle Mariners (1980–1982) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1983, as the Lynn Pirates).〔(While It Lasted".net )〕 They were a member of the Double-A Eastern League and played at Fraser Field in Lynn, Massachusetts. ==Lynn Sailors (1980–1982)== The Lynn Tigers of the New England League, the city's last professional baseball franchise, folded in the middle of the 1949 season. After more than 30 years without a professional team, Lynn returned to minor league baseball in , when the owners of the West Haven Yankees moved the franchise to Boston's North Shore. The Seattle Mariners, founded as an expansion team in 1977, were slowly building out their farm system, and did not field a Double-A affiliate before 1980. During the 1979–1980 offseason, the New York Yankees moved their Double-A affiliation to the Nashville Sounds of the Southern League, and the Mariners replaced them as sponsors of the relocated West Haven franchise, the Lynn Sailors. (Complicating matters further, the Oakland Athletics placed an expansion Eastern League team in West Haven called the Whitecaps and the Glens Falls White Sox also entered the EL in 1980.) The three Sailors teams were competitive, but sparse media coverage was partially to blame for the less-than-enthusiastic showing at the gate. The maiden edition of the Sailors drew 50,786; it would be the high-water mark for the franchise's four-year history, but still ranked next to last in the Eastern League. In the fall of 1981, after Sailor attendance dropped to 38,468, Mike Agganis, nephew of former Red Sox player and Lynn sporting legend Harry Agganis, purchased the franchise. The 1982 Sailors captured the Eastern League North Division pennant by 5 games and swept Glens Falls in the opening round of the playoffs, before falling to West Haven in the finals. But attendance dropped to an all-time low: 23,791—more than 28,000 fans fewer than the league's second-poorest draw. After the season, the Mariners left Lynn and signed a player development contract with the Chattanooga Lookouts, also a Southern League franchise. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lynn Sailors」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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