The Oneonta Red Sox were a minor league baseball team based in Oneonta, New York .
5-624: The first incarnation of the team played in the first New York–Pennsylvania League in 1924. On August of that year, the Utica Utes relocated to Oneonta to finish their season as the Oneonta Indians . In Oneonta, the club posted an 18–22 record. However prior to the next season, the club relocated to Shamokin, Pennsylvania , to become the Shamokin Shammies . The second incarnation of the team can be traced back to 1940 when
10-521: The Can-Am League's Cornwall Maple Leafs relocated to Oneonta and played their home games at Damaschke Field . The club played until 1942 as the Oneonta Indians , winning league titles in 1941 and 1942. However the league suspended operation until 1946, due to World War II. However the team did reemerge that season as the Red Sox. Throughout its entire history the second incarnation of the club
15-635: Was affiliated with the Boston Red Sox . Frank Malzone played third base for one season in Oneonta in 1949 before moving up the minor league system. The club then won two more titles, in 1948 and in the league's final season of 1951. In 1966 a new Oneonta Red Sox team was established and played in the Class A New York–Penn League . New York%E2%80%93Pennsylvania League (1923%E2%80%9337) The New York–Pennsylvania League of 1923 through 1937
20-572: Was an American minor league baseball circuit, the forerunner to the modern Double-A Eastern League . The New York–Pennsylvania League (NY–PL) began in 1923 as Class B circuit and operated at that level through 1932. It then upgraded to Class A for the final five seasons of its existence. When Hartford, Connecticut , entered the loop in 1938, the NY–PL adopted the Eastern League name, and has used that identity since (except for 2021, when it
25-583: Was known as the Double-A Northeast). Previous editions of the Eastern League had existed from 1883–1886, 1892–1911 and 1916–1932. The second incarnation of the Eastern League changed its name in 1912 to the current International League . The NY–PL's longest-tenured franchises during the 1923–1937 period included Binghamton , a New York Yankees affiliate, Elmira , Scranton , Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport , all of which were members for
#721278