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Jimmy "Chicken" Wolf was a nineteenth century baseball player who played 11 seasons in the bigs. He played for his hometown Louisville Eclipse (later called the Colonels) as well as the St. Louis Browns.

Municipal Light, better known as Muny Light, was founded 1907. A small utility, it eventually became a supplemental supplier of electricity for the city of Cleveland. In the late '70s, it became the center of a legal battle when then mayor??Mayor??Dennis Kucinich??refused to sell...

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Shortly after cable TV began to expand across the U.S., Warner Communications (later Warner-AMEX), one of the biggest cable providers, introduced QUBE in Columbus, Ohio in 1977.??QUBE??was an experimental, two-way, multi-programmed??system that played a significant role in the development of American??interactive television. It was...

It's your move! Look great in this chess and Cincinnati-inspired design from Old School Shirts!

Established in Buffalo in 1999, the Destroyers were an Arena League Football team that moved to Columbus in 2004. In 2008, the team ceased operations but was revived in the winter of 2019. However, six months later, the entire league went out of business.

The Columbus Magic played in the old American Soccer league in 1979 and 1980. Their home pitch was Franklin County Stadium which was also used by the Clippers at that time.

In 1916, the Cincinnati Motor Speedway opened in Sharonville, OH, a suburb of Cincinnati. The track closed and was dismantled in 1919, with all of the lumber going to Chillicothe, Ohio to expand Camp Sherman which is still in operation. However, racing on the...

Red Lion Sparkling Ale was a popular brew produced by the??Burger Brewing Company??in Cincinnati from the 1940s until the early 1970s.

King Cobra was the first coaster to be designed and built specifically as a stand-up coaster. The ride opened in 1984. The original manufacturer, TOGO, went out of business in 2001 making parts difficult to find causing the ride to close after the 2002...

Rivermen were members of??North American Softball League (NASL). The NASL existed for only the 1980 season, before joining with the American Professional Slow Pitch League (APSPL) to create the United Professional Softball League. Since the Cincinnati Suds were already in existence in the APSL,...

White Hen Pantry was a chain of convivence stores established in the Chiagoland area in 1965. It grew to 261 stores in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Detroit, and Boston.

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

In 1985, St. Louis??went 101-61, won the pennant, and??are considered to be one of the greatest teams ever.

The Stars were a Negro league baseball team that called Detroit home from 1919 to 1931. Starting as an independent team, they played in the Negro National League from 1920 to 1931. CHECK OUT OUR ENTIRE NEGRO LEAGUES COLLECTION, AS WELL AS MORE SHIRTS...

KTMA was established in 1982. In 1992, they adopted new call letters. It's no mystery what the station's most famous program, was: The one where the guy and his robot friends make fun of cheesy movies.

Laurel & Hardy were one of the most famous comedy duos in history. Stan Laurel, born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in England, came to the U.S. in 1912 with a comedy troupe in which he performed. After the tour, he decided to stay and later...

The Tidewater Sharks played in the Southern Hockey League from 1975 to 1977. Their home was the Norfolk Scope. The team folded before finishing the 1976-77 season.

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...