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The 1927 New York, batting lineup, dubbed Murder's Row, featured some of the most fearsome hitters of all time.??

The New York Stars played in the World Football League (WFL) in 1974, opening their season against the Jacksonville Sharks. Unable to use Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium, the Stars were forced to play their home games at Downing Stadium on tiny, hard to...

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...

The Polo Grounds was the name of four different stadiums in upper Manhattan in New York City, the first of which opened in 1880. The most famous incarnation opened in 1909 and was completely rebuilt in 1911 after a catastrophic fire. That Polo Grounds...

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The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was held on 646 acres of land in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens. It featured 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, from 80 nations (hosted by 37), as well as 24 U.S. states, with over 45 corporations...

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 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.

Wetson's, like many hamburger joints founded in the 1960s, was inspired by the rapid success of McDonald's. At it's peak, it had over 70 locations in the New York Metropolitan area, as well as a few in California.

The??New York Gothams were established in 1883 in the NL. They replaced the??Troy Trojans. The Gothams played their home games at the original Polo Grounds. In 1885 they became the Giants.

The New York Sets were charter members of World Team Tennis??(WTT) in 1974. Their nickname was an attempt to fit in with the football's Jets, baseball's Mets, and basketball's Nets. In 1976, they acquired superstar Billie Jean King and won the WTT title that...

Space Shot was attraction opened at the infamous Action Park in New Jersey in 1996. While the park's reputation for was a bit shady, Space Shot was one of the safer rides, having been designed by a company that specialized in amusement park rides...

The 1998 season saw New York win a then-league-record 114 games and captured a world championship.??

The Checker Motors Corporation was a Kalamazoo-based vehicle manufacture best known for making taxi cabs. The iconic, boxy sedans, roamed the streets of America's cities for most of the 20th century, before ceasing production in 1982. Though widely used by cab companies, Checker cars...

The New York Sets were charter members of World Team Tennis??(WTT) in 1974. Their nickname was an attempt to fit in with the football's Jets, baseball's Mets, and basketball's Nets. In 1976, they acquired superstar Billie Jean King and won the WTT title that...

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. *Design is...

The New York Black Yankees were a Negro baseball league team that played from 1931 to 1948. They played their home games primarily in Paterson, NJ, but also played games New York City. They played their final season in Rochester, NY.

Shea Stadium opened on April 17, 1964 as the New York Mets hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Mets lost lost 4 to 3 in front of 50, 312 fans. The stadium was originally going to be called Flushing Meadow Park Municipal Stadium. However, a...

The Hitmen??were members of the original??XFL??in 2001 season, that league's only season. The team finished?? with 4 wins and 6 losses while averaging just over 28,000 fans a game at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.??