1950–51 Port-au-Prince Buccaneers season

61st season in franchise history

* P Dany André
* P Hadrien Blanc
* SS Thibault Jaffre
* OF Terry Laffont
* C Laurent Mounier

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The **1950–51 Port-au-Prince Buccaneers season** was the Port-au-Prince Buccaneers' inaugural season in the Haitian League, their sixth season in Port-au-Prince, and their 61st overall season. It was also the team’s only season under owner Mathieu Sabatier before he was forced to sell the team to Micah Thomsen. They play their home games at Buccaneers Park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Bucs previously played the 1950 season as a member of Major League Badeball (MLB).

The Buccaneers were required to release all of their foreign players and fire all non-Haitian personnel due to the restriction on foreign players and personnel imposed by the Haitian Baseball Federation and the Haitian League. They hired Claire White to serve the team President, Jean-Marie David as General Manager, and Tony Hébert to serve as the manager. The loss of talent combined with the all new executive and coaching staff led to the Buccaneers finishing the season with the worst record in the league at 12–30 and a last place finish in the Northern League. As a result, they had the first overall draft pick in the 1951 Haitian League draft.

## Regular season

The Buccaneers finished with by far the worst record in the entire league at 11–31. They finished 4th in the Northern League and failed to qualify for the postseason.

## Personnel

 * Owner / Chair of the Board of Directors – Mathieu Sabatier
* Board of Directors – Tyler Van Hollen
* Board of Directors – Dan Robertson
* Board of Directors – Elijah Stevens
* Board of Directors – Micah Thomsen
* Board of Directors – John Davis Wake
* Special Assistant to the Owner – Emmanuel Duvalier
* Special Assistant to the Owner – John E. Froula
 Executive Leadership Team
 * Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer – Sean Smith
* Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer – Ross Mosley
* Executive Vice President and Director of Player Personnel – Jack Smith
* Executive Vice President and Assistant Director of Player Personnel – Roy Kent
* Executive Vice President and Assistant Director of Player Personnel
* Senior Vice President, Public Affairs – Nathaniel Kent
* Senior Vice President, Community Development – Jackie Oates
* Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer – Paul Van Weincke
* Senior Vice President, Chief Communications Officer – Madeline François
* Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer – Ronald Redd
 Baseball operations
 * President – Jean-Marie David
* General Manager – Claire White
* Senior Executive Assistant to the President – Nathalie Loussaint
* Senior Exececutive Assistant to the President – Jean Pierre
* Senior Executive Assistant to the General Manager – Kate Holt
* Senior Executive Assistant to the General Manager – Ozzy Rowe
* Junior Executive Assistant to the President – Gary White
 * Director of Player Development – Brent Clay
* Deputy Director of Player Development – Anderson Park
* Coordinator of Instruction – Alex Jones
* Player Development Analyst, Hitting – Pierre Elliott Rousseau
 * Director of Scouting Operations – Keith Thomsen
* Deputy Director of Scouting Operations – Olivia M. Johnston
* Assistant Director of Scouting Operations – Melissa Lee
* Assistant Director of Scouting Operations – Melody Wu
* Senior Scouting Manager, North – LaThomas Fisher
* Senior Scouting Manager, Central – Ethan Laurent
* Senior Scouting Manager, South – Ian Olson
 * Head Physician – Dr. Mike McDaniels, M.D.
* Assistant Head Physician – Dr. Randy Forbes, M.D.
* Orthopedist – Dr. Kandy Forte
* Orthopedist – Dr. Omaar Smith
* Orthopedist – Dr. Jackson Toussaint
* Primary Care Physician – Dr. Blake Love, M.D.
* Primary Care Physician – Dr. Jackson Pierre, M.D.
* Primary Care Physician – Dr. Louis Etienne, M.D.
* Primary Care Physician – Dr. Jacques Chery, M.D.
* Cardiologist – Dr. Augustin Bernard, M.D.
* Dentist – Dr. Dustin Reid, O.D.
 * Director of Marketing – John David Hypolite
* Senior Manager of Product Development – Derrick Wagner
* Senior Manager of Marketing – James Toliver
* Marketing Coordinator – Danny Jordan
* Marketing Coordinator – Steven Thomas

## Offseason

In the offseason, owner Mathieu Sabatier was ousted as owner of the franchise by the team's Board of Directors. A vote was called against the owner immediately following the conclusion of the final regular seaon game. The board voted 10–2 in favour of ousting Sabatier and the search for a new owner began. On May 4, 1951, the team agreed in principle to a takeover by American Micah Thomsen. When word broke of this impending sale, the team was immeidately met with backlash from the public due to a nationalistic and patriotic attitude towards the Hatian Legaue and the then in-effect ban on foreign players with a specific ban on American players.

The announced that it would sue the Haitian League on June 15, 1951 over the foreign player ban. The Commissioner of the Haitian League at the time, Ben Owens affirmed his committment to the ban. The league eventually caved and on September 29th, the Haitian Legaue announced that it would allow the owners of the other franchise to vote on grandfathering in Thomsen and allowing him to take over the franchise. The vote was held on February 7 and 7 out of the 8 owners voted in favor of allowing the take over.

Upon becoming the principal owner of the Bucs, Thomsen fired President Claire White. The team kept General Manager Jean-Marie David and Mananger Tony Hébert.