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The founder of Flemington Car and Truck Country, and the Somerset Patriots minor league baseball team, was also an Oscar-nominated documentary film producer and a 2020 inductee into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Steve Kalafer, N.J. businessman, owner of Somerset Patriots, dies at 71 Updated 5:16 PM; Today 4:54 PM Steve Kalafer, chairman of Flemington Car & Truck Country and owner of the Somerset Patriots, died Wednesday at age 71. Facebook Share Kalafer, also known as a philanthropist, was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2020. He was a member of RWJBarnabas Health’s Board of Trustees and chairman emeritus of the Somerset Health Care Foundation’s Board of Trustees. And he also gave his time to the nonprofit Actors Fund, which gives emergency services to those in the entertainment i...
Play ball: NJ minor league teams set to return after 2020 hiatus Following a year in which the Major League Baseball schedule was sliced by more than 100 games, with no competitive Minor League games at all, the road to the Majors is opening back up again this spring, and New Jersey will play a key role. It's going to be different for many reasons, most related to COVID-19, but also because the very landscape of New Jersey minor league baseball has shifted since 2019. The New York Yankees have moved their AA affiliation (two steps away from MLB) from the Trenton Thunder, which had been a Yank...
NJ stadiums, big venues will reopen to limited fans in March Gov. Phil Murphy has announced that large venues will be permitted to reopen to a limited number of fans starting in March, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the shutdown of stadiums and other such facilities. Murphy also extended the updated policy to collegiate sports, allowing two people per athlete to attend a game as long as capacity at an indoor venue doesn't exceed 35%, effective immediately, Murphy said during an appearance on WFAN on Monday morning. Any sports or entertainment venue with a capacity of ...
Sure, we’re all covered in snow and ice right now, but one of the best signs of spring took place this week. Baseball’s Spring Training began! On the heels of that awesome event came another indication of better days to come: the Somerset Patriots released their season’s schedule. Keep in mind, as of this season, the Patriots are the Yankees’ AA affiliate, so you’ll be able to see the Bombers of the future at TD Bank Ballpark. One of the joys of minor league baseball is the variety of creative team names. Check out who the Patriots will be playing in the Northeast League this year: