Sports - Defunct Sports Teams, Retro Leagues

The Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks were charter members of the World League of American Football (WLAF) established in 1991. The team went 0-10 and was dissolved after one season. They were replaced in 1992 by the Ohio Glory. After the 1992, the NFL, who ran the...

The Raleigh IceCaps played in the East Coast Hockey League (now known as simply the ECHL) from 1991 to 1998. Their home ice was Dorton Arena in Raleigh. The team was forced to move to Augusta, GA, when the NHL's Hartford Whalers moved to...

The Hit King is No. 14, Pete Rose with 4,256. He also holds the record for games played at 3,562, at bats with 14,053, singles with 3,215, and outs with 10,328. He also has three World Series rings, three batting titles, an MVP Award,...

Pete Rose was a sensation even in the early years of his career. Those days are captured magnificently by artist Hollis Strunk.???? ??

The Brooklyn Dodgers football team was a charter member of the??All-America Football Conference (AAFC) starting in 1946. Following the 1948, season, the Dodgers were merged with the crosstown football Yankees to become the Brooklyn-New York Yankees, leaving the league with seven teams. At the...

Fake it til you make it at BSHS!

The Atlanta Legends were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. The Legends home field was Georgia State Stadium. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

The short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF) launched in spring 2019. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.

The Raleigh Cougars were members of the United States Basketball League from 1997 to 1999. Their homecourt was Dorton Arena and the team's roster featured many players who had played at area colleges and universities.

The Buffalo Braves joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1970 as an expansion team. A dispute over the availability of dates at Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium caused the team to start looking for a new home outside of Western New York. At first a...

The Indianapolis Clowns a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. They came to Indianapolis in 1946 after stints in Cincinnati, Miami, and as a barnstorming team. They left the Negro American League in 1954 but continued to play exhibition games into the...

The Newark Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948. *Product is official licensed by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The??Newark Eagles??were a professional??Negro league baseball??team which played in the??Negro National League??from??1936??to??1948.?? *Product is official licensed by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum??

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??Pittsburgh Keystones??was the name of two historic professional??Negro league baseball??teams that operated in 1887 and again in 1921 and 1922. The first team was a member of the first black baseball league in 1887, the??League of Colored Baseball Clubs. In 1921 and 1922, the...

The??Birmingham Black Barons??played??Negro League Baseball from 1920 to 1960. They alternated home stands with the??Birmingham Barons??in Birmingham's??Rickwood Field, usually drawing larger crowds and equal press. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The Cleveland Buckeyes were a Negro league baseball team and were the Negro Leagues Champions of 1945. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The Homestead Grays were one of the longest-running Negro league baseball teams in history, playing from 1900 to 1950.??They were Negro Leagues Champions in 1943, 1944, and 1948. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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??Gladiators??of the Arena Football League. The Penguins...

The Detroit Drive was formed in 1988, joining the Arena Football League for that circuit's second season. The team played in the Motor City's Joe Louis Arena through the 1993 season, winning four AFL championships. The team moved to Worcester, MA in 1994 and...

He is inarguably the greatest ball player in Pittsburgh history and one of the best in the big leagues period.

He's not vintage Jacksonville yet, but he may be soon!??Being a head coach can be a grind--- figuratively and literally. Just ask Jacksonville's head man. Hey, Coach, that's not what we meant when we said, "the team needs to grind out some more yards."

Westaland Mall opened in 1969 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center, much like the Northland Mall five years earlier. Lazuras had a free-standing store on the site beginning in 1962 and became one of the mall's anchors. In the 70s, the mall was the...

Cincinnati's third foray into the American Hockey League, following the Mohawks in the '50s and the Swords in the early '70s, the Mighty Ducks played at the Cincinnati Gardens from 1997 to 2005.

In the 1990 Series, the Reds defeated the Athletics in a four-game sweep,??becoming wire-to-wire World champs, a feat accomplished by only four other teams in big league history. It was also the Reds second four-game sweep to win the championship. *A portion of proceeds...

Not long after Dallas joined the league, Chicago became a key rival, even though they were in different divisions. Remember the glory days of one of pro football in this fun design from Old School Shirts.

Seven years after the departure of the city's team for Washington, Boston got a new pro football team in 1944. For four years the Yanks called the city home and formed quite a rivalry with Philadelphia.

It's one of the oldest rivalries in football, and it's only gotten more intense.

The original Bills football team was established in 1946 in Buffalo as the Bisons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). In 1947, after a name-the-team contest, the new name was selected. In 1949, the NFL absorbed several AAFC teams but, oddly, the Bills were...

The Ft. Worth Texans hockey team was established in 1967 as the Wings, a farm team of Detroit's top-level team. They played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) at the Will Rogers Coliseum. In 1974, they became the Texans. They defeated their arch rivals...