Jersey City Skeeters

The club started in the 1860s and by 1870 joined the National Association of Base Ball Players.

By 1885, Jersey City had joined the Eastern League, but they dropped out before the end of the season.

The club suffered heavy financial losses in 1914 and on February 24, 1915 owners William Stephen Devery and Thomas A. Fogarty forfeited the franchise to the International League.

[4] The league ran the team for the one season and sold it to James R. Price and Fred Tenney, who moved the club to Newark, New Jersey.

In 1933, however, the Great Depression caused the folding of many leagues and teams, and the Jersey City franchise was moved to Syracuse, New York.