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:
“—Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence
Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,
The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare
At the North Pole. . .
And now what? Why, go back.
Turn as I please, my step is to the south.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
“Think how stood the white pine tree on the shore of the Chesuncook, its branches soughing with the four winds, and every individual needle trembling in the sunlight,—think how it stands with it now,—sold, perchance, to the New England Friction-Match Company!”
—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)