The Jersey City Skeeters were a minor league baseball team which operated in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Skeeters started as an amateur club in the 1860s and by 1870 joined the National Association of Base Ball Players.
By 1885, Jersey City began playing at the Grand Street Grounds and had joined the Eastern League, but they dropped out before the end of the season. The club rejoined the league the following year as the Jersey City Jerseys (taking the place of the Trenton Trentonians) where they finished 2nd.
thumb|left|The 1903 Skeeters
The team participated in three other leagues before 1902, with little success. However, that same year the City of Jersey City built the club a new ballpark for the club called West Side Park and the team fully committed to the Eastern League. The new park seated 8,500 and was generally considered to be the best in the Eastern League. The Skeeters would finish in third place in their first year in the league, but in 1903, they fielded a championship team. That year, the team won their first 18 games, and had a stretch of 25 consecutive victories. They won their first and only league title with a record of 92–33 (.736). That team was managed by 39-year-old player-manager Billy Murray, who stayed with the team through 1906, but the team never won another championship. In 2001, the 1903 Skeeters were ranked 7th out of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time. As of 2025, the 1903 teams' .736 winning percentage is still the best in the history of minor league baseball.
In 1905, the construction of Lincoln Park forced the club to look for a new home. In 1906, the city built a new 8,500 seat West Side Park (II) for the Skeeters down West Side Avenue between Culver and Audubon Avenues. The new ballpark was easily accessible by trolley lines and the CRRNJ West Side Avenue station. The league ran the team for the one season and sold it to James R. Price and Fred Tenney, who moved the club to Newark, New Jersey after the 1915 season.
Olympic great Jim Thorpe played for the Skeeters in several months of the 1915 season, playing right field and batting near the top of the line up in the 2nd or 3rd spot. Thorpe hit .303, with 13 doubles, seven triples, and two home runs in 370 at-bats for the Skeeters, Newark, and Harrisburg that summer.
For the 1932 season, the club became a farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers. By 1933, the Great Depression caused the folding of many leagues and teams and the Skeeter's attendance was half what it had been the year before, averaging fewer than 1,000 a game. As a result, the Jersey City franchise was moved to Syracuse, New York, at the end of the 1933 season.
Baseball returned to Jersey City in 1937 with the opening of Roosevelt Stadium and the New York Giants moving their highest-level (Triple-A) minor league team to the city, calling them the Jersey City Giants.
The team name was revived as a vintage base ball team in 2009.