How Somerset Patriots became Yankees’ Double-A affiliate | Q & A with owner Steve Kalafer
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
Posted Feb 06, 2021
Steve Kalafer’s Somerset Patriots are the new Double-A farm club of the Yankees after being a big draw at TD Bank Ballpark for more than two decades as a founding member of the independent Atlantic League.Somerset Patriots
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Minor league baseball is scheduled to begin in early May, and it’s a long time coming because the entire 2020 season was a pandemic casualty. On opening day for the Somerset Patriots, the Yankees’ new Double-A Eastern League affiliate, owner and founder Steve Kalafer will be thinking about his late father. Milton Kalafer, 83 years young when he passed on the Fourth of July 1999, was a Newark Bears bat boy as a kid, a World War II vet and machine-shop owner as an adult, and a Yankees fan for life.