The North Shore Navigators are a wooden-bat, collegiate summer baseball team based in Lynn, Massachusetts, playing in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. The team plays home games at Fraser Field in Lynn. Formerly known as the Holyoke Giants, team ownership relocated the franchise to Lynn for the 2008 NECBL season. In the offseason following the 2011 NECBL season, a move to the Futures Collegiate Baseball League under new ownership, Salvi Sports New England, LLC, was announced.
Prior to moving to Lynn, the Navigators, as the Giants, were a successful team in the NECBL's Northern Division. The franchise has existed since the NECBL's inception in 1994, and previously, as the Middletown Giants, won three consecutive NECBL Championships (1997, 1998, 1999 seasons), remaining the only team to have done so.
Famous quotes containing the words north, shore and/or navigators:
“The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“It’s so lonely here. Like we were the only two people left in the whole world. Maybe we are. Maybe when we get back to shore everybody else will have disappeared. I’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
—Michael Wilson (1914–1978)
“It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)