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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...

The Homestead Grays were one of the longest-running Negro league baseball teams in history, playing from 1900 to 1950. Formed in Homestead, a suburb of Pittsburgh, the team grew represent the entire area, eventually sharing Forbes Field with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The team also...

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...

They'll be buzzin' around the bases and the ball park this spring! Cicadas are winged insects, known for the songs sung by most, but not all, males of the species. They are better known for their swarming behavior which occurs every 13 to 17...

In the 1920s, baseball was starting to become popular in Japan. To take advantage of this new-found interest, several Negro league and barnstorming teams toured the country playing exhibition games to huge crowds. One such team was the Philadelphia Royal Giants, which was actually...

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...

Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970 as the new home of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. Similar to other so-called cookiecutter stadiums of the era (The Vet in Philadelphia, Riverfront in Cincinnati, etc.), Three Rivers...

Sportsman's Park was the name of several separate ball parks in St. Louis. All but one stood at Dodier Street and Grand Blvd. The final version of the park was home to both the city's NL and AL baseball clubs. The AL team left...

Redbirds was the nickname of Louisville's current AAA minor league baseball team, the Louisville Bats, from 1982 to 1998. From 1999 through 2001, the were known as the RiverBats. Starting in 2002 they dropped the "River" part opting to be just the Bats. Since...

The Kansas City Monarchs are probably the most famous Negro league team of all time and were certainly the longest lasting. Even after the color barrier had been broken in Major League Baseball by Jackie Robinson (a former Monarch), the team continued on, barnstorming...

The Portland Beavers were established in 1903 and through several iterations represented the city in the Pacific Coast League. The last team to use the name left Portland after the 2010 season when plans to build a baseball-only park for the team fell through.

Formerly the Denver Bears, this Pacific Coast League team, founded in 1955, was renamed the Zephyrs in 1984. The club moved to New Orleans when the Colorado Rockies began play in Major League Baseball in 1993.

"The World's Most Famous Clown," as he is sometimes called, got his start in 1946. He made is TV debut in 1949, just as that medium was getting started. He??was the creation of created by??Alan W. Livingston??and first played by??Pinto Colvig. He was played...

The Honolulu Sharks were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. Partially funded by Major League Baseball, it featured players from Japan, Korea, and North America.

The Chicago Whales of the Federal League were originally called the Chicago Federals and the Chi-Feds as they lacked an official nickname. They became the Whales in their second season and were the first team to call what is now Wrigley Field home. The...

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...

County Stadium was originally developed to replace aging Borchert field which dated to 1888. At the time ground was broken, the city was home to a AA team but hoped to attract a big league club. Indeed, the minor league team would never play...

The Charleston Charlies were members of the International League and played in West Virginia's capital from 1971 to 1983, although as to different incarnations. The Columbus Jets relocated to Charleston in 1971 to establish the first edition of the Charlies. They moved back to...

The San Francisco Seals baseball team played in the AAA Pacific Coast League from 1902 until 1957. The arrival f the Major League Baseball New York Giants in 1958 saw the Seals shifted to Phoenix. There they became the farm team of the now...

County Stadium??opened in 1953 and was home to two Milwaukee baseball teams. In 1973, the beer slide and chalet debuted in the stadiums outfield seating area. A character dubbed Bernie slid down the slide and into a giant beer mug after every home run...

The Newark Peppers, or Peps for short, played in the second, and final season, of the??Federal League,?? the short-lived rival to the the American and National Leagues. The team moved from Indianapolis where they won the 1914 FL pennant.

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...

When Hammy utters those words, excitement is sure to follow in Downtown Cleveland as the Tribe takes the field.

The Big Red Machine dominated the National League from 1970 to 1979 and is widely recognized as being among the best in baseball history.

Opened as District of Columbia Stadium in 1961, the home of pro football and pro baseball in Washington, D.C. was renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in 1969. It was better known as RFK Stadium and also hosted soccer as well as concerts and other...

The AAA Stars were stablished in 1983 when the Spokane Indians moved to the Las Vegas Valley. The team was known as the Portland Beavers from 1919 to 1973. The team changed its name to the 51s in 2001, in honor of nearby Area...

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The Phoenix Giants were a AAA baseball team that played in The Pacific Coast League (PCL) in 1958 and 1959 and then from 1966 to 1997, when the National League Arizona Diamondbacks began play. They were the long-time farm team of the San Francisco...

"The World's Most Famous Clown," as he is sometimes called, got his start in 1946. He made is TV debut in 1949, just as that medium was getting started. He??was the creation of created by??Alan W. Livingston??and first played by Pinto Colvig. He was played...

The Chicago Whales of the Federal League were originally called the Chicago Federals and the Chi-Feds as they lacked an official nickname. They became the Whales in their second season and were the first team to call what is now Wrigley Field home.