The Salem Witches were a baseball team of the

New England League The New England League was a mid-level league in American minor league baseball that played intermittently in five of the six New England states (Vermont excepted) between 1886 and 1949. After 1901, it existed in the shadow of two Major League B ...

, a minor league in American

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. The team played a total of five non-consecutive seasons using the "Witches" moniker. Salem also hosted the New England League Salem Fairies (1887) and Salem (1891–1892), as well as Salem of the New England Association (1895). Salem first had a team in the 1884

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. *Location:

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*League:

1888, 1926–1928, 1930 *Ballpark: Alumni Field, Donovan Park

Year-by-year record

Rosters

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1926 season

1927 season

1928 season

In later seasons, the rosters were unrecorded.

Statistics

1926 season

Pitching

Batting

1927 season

Pitching

1928 season

Pitching

Batting

References

Defunct minor league baseball teams Defunct baseball teams in Massachusetts New England League teams Baseball teams disestablished in 1930 Baseball teams established in 1888 Boston Red Sox minor league affiliates Massachusetts State Association teams Salem, Massachusetts Baseball in Lowell, Massachusetts Long stubs with short prose {{Massachusetts-baseball-team-stub