Atlanta

In 1991, Atlanta went from worst to first finishing with a record of 94 and 68. They won the pennant but lost the championship to Minnesota, who had also gone from worst to first.

In 1998,??Atlanta finished with a record of 106 and 56. They won the pennant but lost the championship. Despite not winning a title, they are regarded as one of the best teams ever.??

The Atlanta Black Crackers, originally called the Atlanta Cubs, were a Negro League baseball team that played from 1919 to 1952. They played as both an independent club as well as in various Negro leagues throughout their history. Their home field was Ponce de...

The Atlanta Black Crackers, originally called the Atlanta Cubs, were a Negro League baseball team that played from 1919 to 1952. They played as both an independent club as well as in various Negro leagues throughout their history. *Design is officially licensed from the...

The Atlanta Crackers were a minor league baseball team that played in Georgia's capital from 1901 until the arrival of the Braves from Milwaukee in 1965. Their home for most of that time was Ponce de Leon Park. They played their final season in...

The Macon Whoopee played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 1996 to 2001. The team took its name from a previous squad that played in the city for part of the 1973-74 Southern Hockey League season. After the second Whoopee team folded, the??Tallahassee...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

Robert Hall Clothes, better known as simply Robert Hall, was a warehouse-style clothing store foined in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1937. It eventually grew to over 350 locations in 36 states. Founder Jacob Schwab is reported to have pulled the name out of thin air....

French's Ice Cream was located at 79 Georgia Avenue, just south of downtown Atlanta for much of its history. Several generations remember their fleet of trucks delivering sweet treats to neighborhoods all over town.??

From 1969 to 1980, it was a Memorial Day Weekend tradition. At its peak, more than 300,000 rafters partook in this annual raft race held on the Chattahoochee River (where word has it, it gets hotter than a hoochey-coochey). The race started at Morgan Falls...

Rich's was a department store chain headquartered in Atlanta. It opened in 1867 and was absorbed by Federated Department Stores, operators of Macy's, in 2005. In 1968, it launched the Richway brand, a chain of stores. Their slogan was,??"We don't look like a discount...

Turtles Records & Tapes was a chain of music stores based in Atlanta. Founded in 1977, it had over 125 stores throughout the South at its peak, mostly in Georgia and Florida. In the early '90s the chain was acquired by Blockbuster Music, which...

The Atlanta Legends were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. The Legends home field was Georgia State Stadium. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

The short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF) launched in spring 2019. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.

The??Georgia Force played in the Arena Football League?????from 2002 to 2012. The team was founded the Nashville Kats in 1997 and moved to Atlanta in 2002.??

The Arena Football League was founded in 1986 by Jim Foster, who had gotten the idea from watching a Major Indoor Soccer League game earlier in the decade. After two test games in 1986, the league kicked off in 1987 with four teams travelling...

The Arena Football League was founded in 1986 by Jim Foster, who had gotten the idea from watching a Major Indoor Soccer League game earlier in the decade. After two test games in 1986, the league kicked off in 1987 with four teams travelling...

The Atlanta Knights were members of the International Hockey League (IHL) from 1992 to 1996. They??played at the Omni Coliseum and were winners of the 1994 Turner Cup. In 1996, the team moved to Quebec to become the Rafales. The following year, the NHL...

The Omni Coliseum, known simply as The Omni in Atlanta, opened in 1972 and was the home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL's Atlanta Flames. The Atlanta Chiefs soccer team played their indoor games there as did the Atlanta Attack soccer team. The...

The Atlanta Chiefs outdoor soccer team was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the National Professional Soccer League, which later merged with the United Soccer Association to from the North American Soccer League in 1968. In 1973, the club was sold and...

The Atlanta Attack began play in 1989 as an expansion team in the American Indoor Soccer Association. Their home pitch was The Omni. In 1991, they relocated to Kansas City.

The Atlanta Apollos began as the Atlanta Chiefs and played in the National Professional Soccer League in 1967. When that league merged with the Untied Soccer Association to form the North American Soccer League, the Chiefs followed. The team was sold in 1973 and...

The Atlanta Silverbacks are a soccer club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The team was founded in 1998 as Atlanta Ruckus, the club has played in many leagues over the years. The team plays its home games at Atlanta Silverbacks Park, a large soccer complex...

Metroplex was a punk rock club in Atlanta, Georgia from 1983 to 1988. It brought in national acts such as Bad Brains and Suicidal Tendencies and was the place to be for Atlanta punk rockers in the mid-80s.

The World of Sid and Marty Krofft??was an indoor amusement park??in Atlanta, Georgia that was based on the various TV shows??produced by the sibling duo Sid and Marty Krofft. It was located in what is now CNN Center.??

WQXI first went on the air in 1948 and played the pop standards of the day. In the 1960s it moved to a top-40/rock & roll format, before switching to oldies in the 1970s. The station is most famous for being the inspiration for...

It was the spot where anything goes. Mako's was a bar and restaurant located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta and was known for its wild party atmosphere. It also had a location in downtown Orlando.

Baby Doe's Matchless Mine was a theme restaurant popular in the 1970s and 1980s.??The chain was named for Elizabeth McCourt "Baby" Doe Tabor (1854???935), the young bride of Central City, Colorado mine owner Harvey Doe. It was founded by aviation collector David Tallichet Jr....