Editing New Bedford, Massachusetts (section)

==Sports==
New Bedford had a [[Class B (baseball)|Class B]] level professional Baseball team called The [[New Bedford Whalers (baseball)|New Bedford Whalers]] from 1895 to 1915.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?city=New%20Bedford&state=MA&country=US|title=New Bedford, Massachusetts Encyclopedia|access-date=May 13, 2020|archive-date=December 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214170402/https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?city=New%20Bedford&state=MA&country=US|url-status=live}}</ref> They were a member of the [[New England League]] from 1895 to 1913 and the [[Colonial League (baseball)|Colonial League]] from 1914 to 1915. The team folded after the 1915 season. A second team called the [[New Bedford Millmen]] played for one season in 1929. A second Whalers team played in the New England League in 1933–1934.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=4ea72d95|title=1933 New Bedford Whalers Statistics|access-date=May 13, 2020|archive-date=February 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213073429/https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=4ea72d95|url-status=live}}</ref>

A team from New Bedford won the 1977 edition of the [[Pony League World Series]], defeating a team from [[Lake Worth, Florida]], in the championship game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.plws.org/Default.aspx?tabid=958515|title=All-Time Scores|publisher=Pony World Series|website=www.plws.org|language=en-US|access-date=August 15, 2022|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815231926/https://www.plws.org/Default.aspx?tabid=958515|url-status=live}}</ref>

Since 2009, the city has been home to the [[New Bedford Bay Sox]] [[baseball]] franchise of the [[New England Collegiate Baseball League]], a [[List of collegiate summer baseball leagues|collegiate summer baseball league]] operating in [[New England]]. The team, which reached the league playoffs in their inaugural season, plays home games at [[Paul Walsh Field]] in New Bedford. In 2020, the team announced they were folding for the 2020 season and hoped to return in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/sports/20191112/new-bedford-bay-sox-will-not-field-team-in-2020-but-hope-to-return-in-2021|title=New Bedford Bay Sox will not field a team in 2020 but hope to return in 2021|access-date=August 15, 2020|archive-date=September 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926060154/https://www.southcoasttoday.com/sports/20191112/new-bedford-bay-sox-will-not-field-team-in-2020-but-hope-to-return-in-2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

From 2005 to 2018, the Whaling City Clippers, a [[Semi-professional sports|semi-professional]] team of the [[New England Football League]], played at Walsh Field.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whalingcityclippers.com/|title=Index of /|website=whalingcityclippers.com|access-date=March 2, 2016|archive-date=February 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229213553/http://whalingcityclippers.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2022}}