Massachusetts Mad Dogs
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| League | Can-Am League | ||||
| Location | New Haven, Connecticut | ||||
| Ballpark | Yale Field (2004–07) | ||||
| Year founded | 2004 | ||||
| Year disbanded | 2007 | ||||
| League championships | None | ||||
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| Colors | Powder Blue, Yellow, Black | ||||
| Ownership | New Haven County Cutters Ownership Group | ||||
| Manager | Mike Church | ||||
| General Manager | Marie Heikkinen Webb | ||||
| Media | New Haven Register | ||||
| Website | www |
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The New Haven County Cutters were an independent baseball team based in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2004 through 2007, it played in the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball (the "Can-Am League," formerly known as the Northeast League in 2004), an independent league that is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or with the Minor League Baseball organization.
Originally based in Lynn, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Mad Dogs were named during an event that included students from Lynn and nearby Nahant, Massachusetts. The students having the winning name was a joint effort by Anthony Silva and Sarah Benson of Nahant. The Mad Dogs were members of three different independent baseball leagues. They began play in 1996 as an expansion team in the North Atlantic League. They dominated the NAL, going 56-21 and winning the pennant by 13 1⁄2 games, but fell 2-0 in the best-of-3 playoffs to the Catskill Cougars. The Mad Dogs drew the most fans in the league with 52,384.
When the NAL folded after the 1996 season, the Mad Dogs jumped to the Northeast League and went 45-37, tying for the second half northern lead (23-17) with the Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs. Massachusetts lost in the playoffs 2 games to 1 to Albany. The first year in the Northeast League drew 72,681 fans, second to Albany's 72,985.
The Mad Dogs fell to 39-45 in 1998 and they were next to last in attendance, drawing only 47,123 fans. In 1999, the Northeast League merged into the Northern League to form the Northern League East Division. The club was 41-45 in a tight division. They finished one game out in the first half; they tied for last place in the second half but were just 4 games back. Attendance fell to last in the Northern League's Eastern Division with 38,528. Following the 1999 season, the team suspended operations citing major issues with the team's home in Lynn, Fraser Field.
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