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Winkin Sports Complex
Winkin Sports Complex is a stadium in Bangor, Maine. It is home of the Husson University baseball, field hockey, and football teams. The ballpark has a capacity of 3,000 people and opened in 2004. It was formerly the home of Bangor Lumberjacks....
(2004)
Bangor, Maine
Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine...
The Bangor Lumberjacks were an independent minor league baseball team in the Northeast League that was based in Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine
Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine...
. Prior to 2003, the Lumberjacks played in Glens Falls, New York
Glens Falls, New York
Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States. Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,700 at the 2010 census...
and were known as the Adirondack Lumberjacks
Adirondack Lumberjacks
The Adirondack Lumberjacks were an independent professional baseball team based in Glens Falls, New York. The team moved to Bangor, Maine and became the Bangor Lumberjacks following the 2002 season...
. The team moved to Maine following the 2002 season. In 2003, the Lumberjacks played in Orono
Orono, Maine
Orono is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It was first settled in 1774 and named in honor of Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation. It is home to The University of Maine. The population was 10,362 at the 2010 census.- Geography :...
at Larry Mahaney Diamond and in 2004 they played at Bangor's Winkin Sports Complex
Winkin Sports Complex
Winkin Sports Complex is a stadium in Bangor, Maine. It is home of the Husson University baseball, field hockey, and football teams. The ballpark has a capacity of 3,000 people and opened in 2004. It was formerly the home of Bangor Lumberjacks....
. Kash Beauchamp
Kash Beauchamp
James Kash Beauchamp is the son of Jim Beauchamp, and a former minor league baseball outfielder and manager. Beauchamp originally attended Grove High School in Oklahoma and then Bacone College...
served as the team's manager.
For their first year the Lumberjacks finished with a 42-49 record. The next year, the team finished with a 56-36 overall record, good for second best in the league behind the New Jersey Jackals
New Jersey Jackals
The New Jersey Jackals are a professional baseball team based in Little Falls, New Jersey, in the United States. The Jackals are a member of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball...
. The Lumberjacks met the Jackals in the first round of the playoffs and were quickly eliminated, losing in four games despite having the pitchers with the two best ERA (JC Huguet and Jerry Long) in the league and postseason All-Star Derry Hammond, who hit 23 home runs. Whereas the Lumberjacks had won three league championships in New York, the team failed to win one in their two years in Maine.
The Northeast League stripped Bangor of its membership after the 2004 season and the Lumberjacks folded. The team's roster after the folding comprised the 2005 roster for the Can-Am League's traveling team
The Grays
The Grays were a professional independent baseball team. They were a traveling team which played in the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, an independent league not affiliated with Major League Baseball...
, and later became the initial roster for the Sussex Skyhawks
Sussex Skyhawks
The Sussex Skyhawks were a professional baseball team that played at Skylands Park in Augusta, New Jersey. The team was part of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, an independent minor baseball league also referred to as the Can-Am League, from their inaugural season in 2006...
who debuted in 2006.