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On Saturday, October 27, 2018 a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh Synagogue. Eleven people lost their lives and several police officers were injured. A Pittsburgh designer created this amazing image in the hope that people would share it as a "WIN for love...

Pipers was the original nickname of Pittsburgh's American Basketball Association team. They began play in 1967, the league's inaugural season. After winning the championship, they moved to Minnesota, then moved back to Pittsburgh the following year. A year later they were the Pittsburgh Condors....

The Gladiators were one of four charter teams created to showcase the Arena Football League's inaugural season in 1987. The team played every season from 1987 to 1990, making it to ArenaBowls I and III, before relocating to Tampa Bay, Florida, where they became...

The Pottstown Firebirds were members of the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL). A minor league founded in 1962, the ACFL served as a farm system of sorts for the NFL and AFL, with the Firebirds supplying players to the Philadelphia Eagles. In 1970, the...

Home to hockey's Penguins from 1967 to 2010, the Civic Arena was nicknamed "The Igloo." It was also home to the ABA's Pipers and Condors in the late '60s and early '70s, as well as the indoor soccer Spirit in the '80s and the...

The Latin Casino was a Philadelphia-area nightclub that opened in 1948 at 1309 Walnut Street. Many top entertainers of the day performed there. In 1960, the club moved to Cherry Hill, NJ.

The Pittsburgh Triangles were a charter franchise in World Team Tennis formed in 1973. The Triangles won the 1975 WTT championship but folded after the 1976 season. Their home court as the Civic Arena. In 1977, the Cleveland Nets split their home games between...

The Pittsburgh Stingers played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) for two seasons, 1994 and 1995.

The original Philadelphia Fury competed in the North American Soccer League from 1978 to 1980, succeeding the Philadelphia Atoms who folded in 1976. The current incarnation competes in the National Independent Soccer Association, using the same logo and colors.

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...

As Squints from the movie "The Sandlot" might put it, live and die Pittsburgh FOR-EV-ER!

The Pittsburgh Shamrocks played in the old International Hockey League for the 1935/36 season. After losing $40,000 in their lone season, the team folded. In the fall of 1936, the Detroit Olympics moved to Pittsburgh to become the Hornets.

The Pittsburgh Hornets started as the Detroit Olympics in the International Hockey League (IHL). In 1936 they moved to Pittsburgh and joined what would become the American Hockey League (AHL). In 1956 they suspended operations as their home arena, the??Duquesne??Garden, was razed as part...

One of the most famous ballparks in sports history, Ebbets?? Field was best-known as the home of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957. It was also the home field for five pro football teams: the Brooklyn Brickley Giants, Brooklyn Lions, Brooklyn Dodgers (later...

Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970 as the new home of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. Similar to other so-called cookiecutter stadiums of the era (The Vet in Philadelphia, Riverfront in Cincinnati, etc.), Three Rivers...

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.??

One of the most storied clubs in the city's history, the Electric Banana opened in the '70s as a discotheque. In 1980, it became a punk rock club and went on to host such famous national acts as Husker Du, Black Flag, the Circle...

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...

Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille was Pittsburgh's horror TV host from 1964 to 1983 on WIIC, Channel 11 (now WPXI). Like many such personalities across the country, Cardille had other jobs at the TV station and took the movie host job as a side gig....

Forbes Field was the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 to 1970. From 1922 to 1939 it was also the home field of the Homestead Grays, who played in several different Negro leagues. The Pittsburgh Steelers played there from 1933 to 1963. In...

The New Jersey Rockets were members of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) for the 1981-82 season. They played their home games in??Brendan Byrne Arena at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, NJ. The team folded after their lone season in the MISL. The team's...

The Baltimore Bandits played in the American Hockey League from 1995 to 1997. They were a farm team of the National Hockey League's Anaheim Mighty Ducks. In 1997, the team moved to Cincinnati, where they adopted the parent club's nickname, Mighty Ducks.??

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...

Shibe Park was the home of the Philadelphia Athletics starting in 1909. In 1938, the name of the park was changed to Connie Mack Stadium as the Phillies became the A's roommates for the next 16 years, until the latter moved to Kansas City...

Baltimore joined the Eastern Hockey League in 1979 as the Clippers. The team moved to the Atlantic Coast Hockey League in 1981 and changed their name to the Skipjacks. In 1982, they moved up to the American Hockey League. In 1993, they moved to...

The Baltimore Clippers played in the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1962 until 1976 and the Southern Hockey League for one season, 1976-77. Their home was the Baltimore Civic Center.

The Providence Reds (also known as the Rhode Island Reds) started in the Canadian-American Hockey League in 1926. They continued with that circuit when it became the American Hockey League in 1936. In 1976, the became the Rhode Island Reds, before moving to Binghamton,...

The Portland Pirates were members of the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1993 to 2016. The team started in Erie, PA as the Blades, members of North American Hockey League and later the Northeastern Hockey League. In 1981 they joined the AHL, then moved...

The Tea Men played in the old North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1978 to 1980. They played one season in the NASL's indoor league (1979-80). Failing to resolve nagging stadium issues, the team moved to Jacksonville in the fall of 1980.

The Hartford Bicentennials joined the old North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1975. After the 1976 season, they became the Connecticut Bicentennials. The team moved to Oakland, CA in 1978 and became the Stompers, then to Edmonton, AB in 1979, where they became the...