Sports - Defunct Sports Teams, Retro Leagues

Municipal Stadium in Kansas City opened in 1923 as??Muehlebach Field. In 1937 it became??Ruppert Stadium, before changing its name again in 1943 to Blues stadium in honor of the AAA Blues that played there. However, another, better known team played there starting in 1937:...

Most Queen City hockey fans know of the Mohawks, Swords, Stingers, and Might Ducks.?? However, another hockey team played in Cincinnati, albeit for just one season. IN 1963, the Indianapolis Capitols of the Central Professional Hockey League relocated to The Cincinnati Gardens after their...

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The Memphis Pros were originally the New Orleans Buccaneers, a charter member of the American Basketball Association. After three years in New Orleans, they moved to Memphis in 1970 and became the Pros, and made the Mid-South Coliseum their home. They were later known...

Duffy's Shamrock Bar was opened in the 1950s at 1645 Tremont Place and was a Denver institution into the 21st century. It later moved a block over to 1635 Court Place. Denver weekly paper Westword??wrote in 2002 that Duffy's felt "like an East Coast...

The Havana Sugar Kings were a AAA minor league baseball team based in Cuba's capital from 1946 to 1960. They were members of the International League and their parent club was Cincinnati. Their home field was??El Gran Estadio del Cerro??(also known as Gran Stadium) in Havana....

The New Jersey Meadowlands, also known as the Hackensack Meadowlands after the primary river flowing through it, is the general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeastern New Jersey,?? a few miles west of New York City. Sports fans are familiar with...

Before major league baseball arrived in Milwaukee in 1953, the city hosted a team in the American Association (AA) starting in 1902.?? A minor league, the AA became an A level circuit in 1903. In 1912, it was designated AA and in 1945, it??...

The Pittsburgh Rens were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Rens was short for??Renaissance,??a clean air and civic revitalization project launched by city leaders in the late 1940s.??The Rens were...

The Chicago Majors were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. The Majors hit the court the same year the city received a franchise in the established National Basketball Association (NBA)....

The Hawaii Chiefs were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Unlike other ABL clubs, the Chiefs drew well, rotating home games between??the??Civic Auditorium, the??Conroy Bowl??at??Schofield Barracks??and??Bloch Arena. A crowd of...

The Kansas City Steers were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Unlike other ABL clubs, the Steers drew well. The team finished with a record of 54 and 25, an...

The Hawaii Chiefs were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Unlike other ABL clubs, the Chiefs drew well, rotating home games between??the??Civic Auditorium, the??Conroy Bowl??at??Schofield Barracks,??and??Bloch Arena. A crowd of...

The San Francisco Saints were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. With the arrival of the Warriors in 1962, the Saints moved across the bay to Oakland where they became...

The Washington Tapers were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. The Tapers moved to New York have through their inaugural season, and then went to Philadelphia in the fall of...

The Los Angeles Jets were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. The league was formed after Harlem Globetrotters' owner Abe Saperstein was denied an expansion franchise for Los Angeles in...

The Blues were Kansas City's AAA minor league baseball team from 1902 to 1954. They played in the American Association and were charter members of that circuit. In 1954, when the A's moved to town from Philadelphia, the Blues moved to Denver and became...

Fantasy Island amusement parked opened in 1961 on Grand Island. It originally sat on 12 acres and was divided into five themed areas:??Action Town, Animal Kingdom, Garden of Fables, Indian Village, and Western Town. It grew to 85 acres. A waterpark was added in...

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The original El Paso Diablos were established in 1892 as the Browns. They were later known as the Mavericks, Texans, and Sun Kings. In 1974, they became the Diablos. The team moved to Springfield, MO in 2005 but were replaced by a new Diablos...

In 1976, Philadelphia celebrated America's Bicentennial!

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.

The Philadelphia Blazers were charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972. The team spent one season in Philly before relocating to Vancouver, B.C.

The Calgary Cowboys began as the Philadelphia Blazers in the inaugural season of the World Hockey Association in 1972. The team moved to Vancouver in 1973, keeping their nickname. In 1975 they moved to Calgary and became the Cowboys. They folded in 1977.

The Stingers were Cincinnati's only major league hockey team. The team played at Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena) from 1975 to 1979, and they were members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). When the WHA merged with the National Hockey League in 1979,...

The Minneapolis Marines were a professional football team established in 1905. An independent team for most of its existence, it joined the American Professional Football Association in 1921, that league's second season. The team ceased operations after the 1924 season but reformed as the...

??WPTY, Channel 24, began broadcasting on September 10, 1978. It was the first independent TV station in Memphis. In 2013, the station changed its call letters.????

The Florida Blazers of the World Football League started off as the Washington Ambassadors, though they never played a down in the nation's capital. Unable to secure a stadium there, the team wound up in Central Florida and made it all the way to...