Allentown Ambassadors

The Allentown Ambassadors were an independent baseball team that competed in the Northeast League and the Northern League from 1997 until 2003. They played their home games at Allentown, Pennsylvania's Bicentennial Park.

After the 2003 season, team owner Peter Karoly announced that he was folding the team. The roster, for the most part, was dispersed through all the teams in the league, and whatever was left (with the addition of a few free agents) became part of a traveling team known as The Aces. The Aces played one season before the league replaced them with the Worcester Tornadoes.

In April 2008, professional baseball is scheduled to return to Allentown, when the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the AAA-level Philadelphia Phillies team, are scheduled to begin playing at Coca-Cola Park, a new, 7,000-capacity stadium.

Peter J. Karoly, the Allentown lawyer, who had been the owner of the Allentown Ambassadors, and his wife, Lauren Angstadt, died Feb. 2, 2007 along with the pilot of Karoly's Socata TBM-700 plane in a crash at New Bedford Regional Airport. [ [http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5crashfeb04,0,379385.story?coll=all-news-hed The Morning Call February 4, 2007] ]

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