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:
“I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”
—Oliver North (b. 1943)
“The shore is composed of a belt of smooth rounded white stones like paving-stones, excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in many places a single leap will carry you into water over your head; and were it not for its remarkable transparency, that would be the last to be seen of its bottom till it rose on the opposite side. Some think it is bottomless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)