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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 Maui Stingrays were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. Their homefield was Maehara Stadium in Wailuku, Maui. Partially funded by MLB, the league featured players from Japan, Korea, and North...

The Hilo Stars were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. They split home games between Vulcan Field and Wong Stadium. Partially funded by the big leagues, the league featured players from...

The Waikiki BeachBoys were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. Their name was derived from a group credited with popularizing the sport of surfing in Hawaii. Partially funded by MLB, the...

Aloha Stadium opened in 1975 as replacement for old Honolulu Stadium. The facility was home to U of H football, the World Football League's Hawaiians (1975), the minor league baseball Islanders (1976-1987), Team Hawaii of the NASL, the Pro Bowl for many years, as...

Often misidentified as the Honolulu Hawaiians, this charter member of the World Football League (WFL) was known simply as The Hawaiians. Though crowds were small, the team avoided many of the financial problems that plagued most of the league's other teams. In 1975, the WFL's...

The World Football League (WFL) kicked off in July of 1974 as a rival to the established National Football League (NFL). At first, it seemed like it would be a serious rival to the NFL. After all, league founder Gary Davidson had already formed...

Available in a tee on natural (tan), and white (tee, V-neck, tank, crewneck and hooded sweatshirt). The World Football League (WFL) kicked off in July of 1974 as a rival to the established National Football League (NFL). At first, it seemed like it would...

Team Hawaii played one season in the old North American Soccer League (NASL). Founded as the San Antonio Thunder in 1975, the team arrived in Honolulu in 1977. Their home pitch was Aloha Stadium. Shortly after the end of the season, the team moved...

KULA began broadcasting on May 14, 1947. In 1967, it changed it's call letters to KKUA and switched its format to Top-40. It has changed call signs several times since, and today is a talk radio station.

The Hawaii Chiefs were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Unlike other ABL clubs, the Chiefs drew well, rotating home games between??the??Civic Auditorium, the??Conroy Bowl??at??Schofield Barracks??and??Bloch Arena. A crowd of...

The Hawaii Leis were charter members of World Team Tennis??(WTT) in 1974. They were one of the state's first pro sports franchises along with The Hawaiians football team that also began play in 1974. The Leis spent two seasons in the Aloha State before...

The original North American Soccer League (NASL) was formed in 1967 when the competing United Soccer Association and the National Professional Soccer League decided to join forces. For the next 12 seasons, it was the top-level league for outdoor soccer in the U.S. and...

Steve Crane was an actor turned restaurateur. After opening the highly successful Luau restaurant in Beverly Hills in the late 1940s, he started the Kon Tiki chain in 1958. Most of these were located inside Sheraton hotels.

KHVH hit the airwaves on April 16, 1954 as KULA. It carried programs by ABC as well as DuMont. In 1959 it changed to the KHVH call letters, before changing to it's current letters in 1973.

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

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ATA Airlines started as Ambassador travel club in 1973. It later became American Trans Air, then simply ATA.?? It had hubs at Indianapolis International Airport and Chicago's Midway Airport. In 2008, it ceased operations.

The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,...

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.,...