Norwich Sea Unicorns

• Location Norwich, CT
• League New York-Penn League 2020 (never played)
• Affiliation Detroit Tigers
• Ballpark Dodd Stadium

Team History

In December 2019, the Connecticut Tigers announced a re-branding as the Norwich Sea Unicorns for 2020. However, the season was cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic and the New York-Penn League was disbanded a year later as part of the reorganization of minor league baseball, thus the team never took the field.

In December 2021, the Unicorns and three other dropped teams jointly filed a lawsuit against MLB. Two of the others, the Staten Island Yankees and the Tri-City ValleyCats, also have pending suits against their former parents. The other, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, are taking their first legal action.[1]

After being dropped from Organized Baseball, the franchise joined the Futures Collegiate Baseball League - at that point having never actually played a game as the Sea Unicorns. Under the terms of a 2019 lease extension, they had dropped their 2010-2019 moniker, Connecticut Tigers.

When the club agreed to change its locale name from Connecticut to Norwich, it ran a naming contest to replace "Tigers" as well. Some 700 nickname suggestions came in. Five were nominated and, after a fan vote, "Sea Unicorns" was announced.

Founded in Wellsville, NY, in 1942 as the Wellsville Yankees, the franchise had moved to Otsego County in 1966 as the Oneonta Red Sox. The next year, with the rest of the NYPL, it went short-season. The move to Connecticut came in 2010.

The franchise's team played an annual game at Cooperstown's Doubleday Field from 1991 through 2010.

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs	Hitting Coach	Pitching Coach
2020	Season cancelled

External Links

• Official site