From The Desk Of Yonkers Newswire Editor Brian Harrod: MLB: Lost in Yonkers: Tale of the worst team ever.

 

From The Desk Of Yonkers Newswire Editor Brian Harrod..... MLB: Lost in Yonkers: Tale of the worst team ever The ballpark has no dugouts. It has no locker rooms. It has no restrooms, no concession stands and no scoreboard. No warning track lines its chain-link outfield fence. No plumbing routes run beneath its all-dirt infield or its spartan slab seats. Set foot in the facility known as Fleming Field today -- in the shadow of the city water tower that blares the word “YONKERS” in bold blue letters -- and you would never know it actually housed a professional baseball team in 1995. Then again, you would not have known it in 1995, either. Fleming Field was the appropriately abysmal home of possibly the worst team in the history of paid play. They were called the Yonkers Hoot Owls, and their story is a lot like the movie “Major League” … albeit without the uplifting arc or happy ending. In amenities, in attendance and in the independent Northeast League’s standings, the Hoot Owls were dead last, then dead altogether. They lived for just a single, financially ruinous summer. And yet, while changing into their uniforms in foul territory, mowing their own outfield grass and traveling to road games on a rickety school bus with no air conditioning, the Hoot Owls formed friendships and memories no record can reflect. “We sucked,” says first baseman Peter Bifone. “But it was the funnest year of my life".... https://www.facebook.com/groups/YonkersNewswire/permalink/2910719225852303/