The Thirties

Forbes Field was the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 to 1970. From 1922 to 1939 it was also the home field of the Homestead Grays, who played in several different Negro leagues. The Pittsburgh Steelers played there from 1933 to 1963. In...

The Chicago American Giants were a Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster, who also founded the Negro National League. From 1910 through the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black...

The original Cleveland Barons were members of the American Hockey League from 1937 until 1973 and were one of the league's most successful franchises. However, they were unable to compete with the major league Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association (owned my the...

Shibe Park was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics starting in 1909. In 1938, the name of the park was changed to Connie Mack Stadium as the Phillies became the A's roommates for the next 16 years, until the latter moved to Kansas City...

The Pittsburgh Hornets started as the Detroit Olympics in the International Hockey League (IHL). In 1936 they moved to Pittsburgh and joined what would become the American Hockey League (AHL). In 1956 they suspended operations as their home arena, the??Duquesne??Garden, was razed as part...

Earl Scheib??would paint any car, any color. Earl Scheib's was founded in 1937 as a company that specialized repainting and collision repair of automobiles and at it's peak it had??locations in 23 states.??The company eventually ceased operations nationwide on July 16, 2010.

The New Orleans Black Pelicans were members of the????Louisiana-Texas Colored League in 1930 and 1931. Their ace was Robert Pipkin who was also known as the Black Diamond. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The New Orleans Black Pelicans were members of the Louisiana-Texas Colored League in 1930 and 1931. Their ace was Robert Pipkin who was also known as the Black Diamond. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The??Louisville Black Caps??were a professional baseball??team in the??Negro Southern League??in 1932, that circuit's only year of existence. Only five months into the season, the team relocated and to Columbus, Oho and became the Turfs??for the remaining month and a half of the season before...

Opened in 1912 as Navin Field, Briggs Stadium was the home of the Detroit Tigers. In 1938, it was renamed Briggs Stadium, a name it kept until 1961 when it became Tiger Stadium.

Cleveland Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium or Lakefront Stadium, was the primary home of their big league baseball team from 1932 to 1993 and their football team from 1946 to 1996. It was also home to the Cleveland Stokers soccer team, as well as...

The Hollywood Stars were a Pacific Coast League baseball team based in Southern California. The first iteration played in L.A. from 1926 to 1935 before moving to San Diego. The second Stars team played from 1938 to 1957 and the arrival of big league...

Los??Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo??was a??Dominican??dream team??formed in 1937 under the direction of then-dictator??Rafael Trujillo.??The team was essentially a merger of??Tigres del Licey??and??Leones del Escogido.??The team represented??Santo Domingo??in the championship series that lasted from March 28 to July 11 of that year, resulting in the...

In 1920, while working for the NECCO candy company, Howard B. Stark invented a caramel and vanilla-swirled nougat filling he named Snirkle. In 1939, he founded the Howard B. Stark Company in Milwaukee and began making Snirkles Caramel Bars which became a regional hit....

Hockey Night in Canada traces its roots back to 1931 and Saturday night radio broadcasts of NHL hockey. It came to television in 1952. It is one of the most iconic sports television sports events in the world, pre-dating Monday Night Football in the...

National Record Mart, or NRM for short, started in 1937 in downtown Pittsburgh as Jitterbug Records. In the 1940s, it changed its name and began to grow, eventually opening 130 stores in 30 states, including every mall and shopping center in Pittsburgh.

The Cincinnati Tigers were a Negro baseball team founded in 1934. They played as an independent team for three years before joining the Negro American League in 1937. They played in that circuit for only one season before disbanding. The team used uniforms donated...

Canada's Sam the Record Man, not to be confused with U.S.-bases Sam Goody, was founded in 1937 by Sam Sniderman. Originally it was the phonograph records department of his parents store on Yonge St. in Toronto. It grew to become the country's largest music...

The Seattle Rainiers began in 1903 as the Seattle Indians. In 1938, beer magnate Emil Sick bought the team and renamed it after his Rainier brewery. He also built the team a new home, Sick's Stadium. In 1965 they became a farm team of...

The Providence Reds (also known as the Rhode Island Reds) started in the Canadian-American Hockey League in 1926. They continued with that circuit when it became the American Hockey League in 1936. In 1976, the became the Rhode Island Reds, before moving to Binghamton,...

The??Philadelphia Stars??were a??Negro league baseball??team from??Philadelphia founded in as an independent team in 1933. In 1934, they joined the Negro National League, staying until that League's collapse following the 1948 season. They were affiliated with the Negro American League from 1949 to 1952. *Design...

Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

Big Bear was a supermarket chain that operated in Central Ohio and West Virginia. Not to be confused with the chain of the same name in San Diego. The first Big Bear opened in 1933 on West Lane Avenue in Columbus near the campus...

The Ottawa Rough Riders were established in 1876 and were one of the longest running professional sports teams in North America. They adopted the Rough Riders nickname in 1931, they were charter members of the Canadian Football League (CFL) formed in 1958. The club...

Many Cincinnati breweries went out of business during prohibition. However, when the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1933, making the sale of alcohol legal once again, new brewers sprang up including Schoenling which opened its doors on Good Friday, 1934. Most famous for its...

The??Washington Black Senators??were a baseball team that played in the (second) Negro National League in 1938. The team was established when the Washington Elite Giants moved up the road to Baltimore.?? *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The Baltimore Black Sox were a professional Negro League baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland from 1916 to 1933. In their final season, they played in the Negro National League with the Baltimore Elite Giants.

The Portsmouth Spartans were established in 1928 and played in pro football's national league starting in 1930. In 1934, the team was bought and relocated to Detroit, where they became the Lions.

The New York Cubans were a Negro league baseball team based in Paterson, NJ that played from 1931 to 1950. The team was unique in that it occasionally had Hispanic players, who were also restricted from Major League Baseball, on it roster. In 1947,...

The Pittsburgh Shamrocks played in the old International Hockey League for the 1935/36 season. After losing $40,000 in their lone season, the team folded. In the fall of 1936, the Detroit Olympics moved to Pittsburgh to become the Hornets.