The Canadian-American Association or Can-Am League is an independent minor leaguebaseball league which operates in the Northeastern United States and the Canadian province of Québec. None of its member teams is associated with any Major League Baseball team.
The Northeast League was formed in 1995, but merged with a fellow independent league, the Northern League, in 1998. After the 2002 season, the Northeast League was reestablished as a separate league. For the 2005 season, the league reconstituted as the Can-Am League and acquired a new team in Worcester, Massachusetts, to replace the Allentown Ambassadors, who folded days before the 2004 season began and forced the league to field a traveling team called the Aces.
The Canadian-American Association is a new name for a league with ties to two independent leagues, the NortheastLeague (formed in 1995), and the Northern League.
The two leagues merged in 1998, but after the 2002 season, the NortheastLeague was reestablished as a separate league.
For the 2005 season, the NortheastLeague reconstituted as the Canadian-American Association and acquired a new team in Worcester, Massachusetts, to replace the Allentown Ambassadors, who folded days before the 2004 season began and forced the league to field a traveling team called the Aces.