Port Chester Clippers

The Bridgeport Bees, New London Raiders, Poughkeepsie Giants, Stamford Bombers and Waterbury Timers joined Port Chester as members of the reformed league, beginning play on May 7, 1947.

Port Chester finished 32.5 games behind the pennant winning Waterbury Timers in the regular season standings.

Port Chester finished 9.0 games ahead of the second place Poughkeepsie Chiefs in the final regular season standings, which ended on September 7, 1948.

[6] In 1948, Port Chester Clipper Carlos Bernier was reportedly one of six black players in organized baseball to begin the season.

Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Roy Campanella, Hank Thompson and Dan Bankhead were noted to be the other players, as Bernier played his first season of minor league baseball.

On September 19, 1948, he reportedly hit an inside the park home run in a Finals game against the Poughkeepsie Chiefs.

[13] The Port Chester Clippers teams hosted minor league home games at Empire Stadium.