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Steve Kalafer, owner of the Somerset Patriots and chairman of the Flemington Car and Truck Country Family, died from complications of cancer Wednesday morning, the team announced. He was 71.
“We are completely heartbroken by Steve’s passing. Everyone who ever came into contact with him over the years knows just how special a person he was,” said Patrick McVerry, Somerset Patriots president and general manager. “He built his dealerships and this team from the ground up with the customers, employees, his family, and the communities served always as his top priorities. He taught us all the value of doing things the right way, of taking the time to build long lasting relationships, and making a difference wherever you can.
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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.