Midwest

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...

Mississippi River Festival, or MRF, was an outdoor concert series held from 1969 to 1980 on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois. Many top performers of the day appeared. The run ended when the university asked the new promoter to bring in classical...

Did you ever rock at Peabody's?

"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 original American Basketball Association (ABA) was founded in 1967 as a challenger to the established NBA. After fierce competition between the two for fans and players, 4 ABA teams were absorbed by the NBA in 1976. The Kentucky Colonels, the league's most successful...

At Johnny's Toys Birthday Castle, a key would come in the mail and on your birthday, your key would open the door to a castle nestled in the corner of the Latonia, Kentucky toy store. Once your key opens the castle, you would get...

The St. Louis Storm played in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) from 1989 to 1992, replacing the Steamers who folded a year earlier.

The Sting played in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1975 to 1984 and the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in the 1982-83 season and again from 1984 to 1988. They won the NASL Championship in 1981 and 1984. The team was dissolved...

Forest City Auto Parts was founded in 1927 and grew to over 50 locations throughout the Midwest. In 2001, it filed for bankruptcy protection, shuttered its remaining stores.

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...

WOXY, 97X, was one of the most important alternative rock radio stations in America from 1985 until it went off the air in 2004. It stayed alive for a few more years as an Internet-only radio station. During its final year of existence, the...

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...

Rink's was founded in Hamilton, Ohio, between Cincinnati and Dayton, in 1951 by Hyman Ullner. It was later acquired by Gray Drug and later Cook United, owners of Uncle Bill's. The last Rink's store closed in 1987.

The St. Louis Stars played in the original North American Soccer League from 1968 to 1977. The Stars fielded mostly American players, many from the St. Louis area. In their final season in St. Louis, they drew nearly 10,000 fans per game. However, they...

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...

"Hot Dan The Mustard Man" was a cartoon spokesperson for a large, nationally distributed mustard company. He was primarily used in print ads in the 40's and 50's. Hot Dan can be yours on our comfy, tan fleck tee.

You don't have to be from Cincinnati to love this classic sitcom. Based on Atlanta radio station WQXI, Cincinnati was chosen as the home of the fictitious station at random, as producers sought a more Midwestern location. "Cincinnati" also flowed well with the made-up...

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

In 1971, Buffalo was granted an expansion franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed the Sabres, the league???s newest member needed a farm team that would play in the American Hockey League (AHL). The AHL also needed to replace the Buffalo Bison what...

"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 Columbus Checkers joined the International Hockey League (IHL) in 1966, and played four seasons before halting operations. In 1971, the teams territorial rights were acquired by the NHL's California Golden Seals. Renamed the Columbus Golden Seals, they became a farm team of the...

The characters Lenny and Squiggy, from the hit 70's-era sit-com "Laverne & Shirley," formed a band during the course of that TV series. In 1979, the actors who portrayed them, Michael McKean and David Lander, released an album as the duo. McKean would go...

You don't have to be from Cincinnati to love this classic sitcom. Based on Atlanta radio station WQXI, Cincinnati was chosen as the home of the fictitious station at random, as producers sought a more Midwestern location. "Cincinnati" also flowed well with the made-up...

The first American Basketball Association (ABA) All-Star Game was played January 9, 1968 at the Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. A crowd of 10,872 watched as the East topped the West 126-120.

After 105 years, the Cleveland baseball team is now the Cleveland Baseball Team. Will they go back to being the Lake Shores, the Bluebirds, the Broncos (um--no!), the Naps, or will it be something else? Time will tell. In the meantime, Cleveland baseball fans...

After the NHL's California Golden Seals sold their Columbus farm team of the same nickname??to local interests, it was renamed the Owls and played on until 1977 when it moved to Grand Rapids. The teams home ice in Columbus was the Fairgrounds Coliseum.

Al Green's drive-in restaurant opened on the east side of Indianapolis in 1947. Boosted by the post-war car craze, Al Green's was a happening spot through the 1970s. It closed in 1992, and the building has since been demolished.??

The Dayton Bombers played in the East Coast Hockey League from 1991 to 2009. Their home ice was originally Hara Arena, but in 1996, they moved to the Nutter Center. They made the ECHL playoffs in 13 of their 18 seasons.   OS15110

Americana opened in Middletown as LeSourdsville Lake??in 1922. One of the park's founder's, Edgar Streifthau, opened Fantasy Farm, geared toward young children, right next door in 1963. In 1977, LeSourdsville Lake became Americana. It closed in 1999, reopened in 2002, only to close again...