Bergen Cliff Hawks
The Bergen Cliff Hawks were a proposed minor league baseball team to be based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team planned to play in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The team would have played at the Bergen Ballpark, located on the site of the Xanadu Meadowlands project. The name "Cliff Hawks" refers to the raptors that inhabit the cliffs of the New Jersey Palisades which stretch through Bergen County. History East Rutherford, as all of Bergen County, is located adjacent to New York City. Bergen County does not have any professional baseball history of its own. Much of the fanbase for the New York Yankees and the New York Mets comes from the northern New Jersey area, and the city of Newark also has commanded attention for the older and newer inceptions of the Bears. Many of the residents of Bergen County will visit Yogi Berra Stadium and the New Jersey Jackals for minor league baseball. Since 2000 Steve Kalafer, a current investor of the Atlantic League, owner of the Somerset Patriots, and part-owner of the Camden Riversharks, tried to bring a professional baseball team to northern New Jersey. Initially