Sports - Defunct Sports Teams, Retro Leagues

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...

Kemp Hill Music was a chain of record stores in the Washington, D.C. area. Founded in the 1970s, it grew to over 30 locations. The last one was located on Branch Avenue in Prince George???s County. It closed in 2017.

The Las Vegas Posse played one season (1994) in the Canadian Football League before packing their bags and heading to South Florida. Renamed the Miami Manatees, they were set to return for the 1996 campaign. However, they never played a down in the Sunshine...

The New Orleans Brass played in the East Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2002. Their home ice was the Memorial Auditorium, then later the New Orleans Arena. When pro basketball returned to town, the new hoops team became the arena's top tenant and...

The Indianapolis Hoosiers played in the short-lived Federal League (FL), staring in 1913 when the circuit was still considered a minor league. They won the pennant in the FL's first season as a major league. In 1915, the team moved to Newark, NJ and...

The Macon Whoopee played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 1996 to 2001. The team took its name from a previous squad that played in the city for part of the 1973-74 Southern Hockey League season. After the second Whoopee team folded, the??Tallahassee...

The St. Louis Stampede played in the Arena Football League in 1995 and 1996. They made the playoffs both years but lost in the first round.

Two Guys from Harrison, better known as the Two Guys department store chain, was founded in New Jersey, was founded in the late 1940s, somewhat by accident. Brothers??Herbert and Sidney Hubschman, who had operated a snack bar at the headquarters of RCA, obtained several...

The??Kissimmee Cobras played in the Florida State League from 1985 to 2000. For most of their existence, the were a farm team of Houston in the Senior Circuit of the big leagues. Indeed, they used the parent club's nickname until 1995, when they became...

America's past time is enjoyed around the world.

America's past time is enjoyed around the world.

America's past time is enjoyed around the world, particularly in Puerto Rico, where it's that island's top sport. It was introduced there in the late 1800s with the first two clubs being founded in 1897.??

America's past time is enjoyed around the world, particularly in Japan, where it's that country's top sport. It was introduced to the island nation in 1872 with professional leagues emerging in the 1920s.

America's past time is enjoyed around the world.

America's past time is enjoyed around the world.

Baseball came to Cuba in the 1860s. Though an American sport by invention, it his deeply embedded in Cuban culture.??

As is the case in many Caribbean nations, baseball is the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic. The sport was introduced there in the late 1800s. In 2013, the country won world championship.??

Baseball came to??Venezuela in the early 1900s via oil company workers from the United States. The sport gained greater popularity in the 1940s after??Venezuela defeated Cuba on the 1941 World Cup.??

The Ottawa Civics lasted for only two weeks in World Hockey Association (WHA. They started the 1975-76 season as the Denver Spurs, who were a bit of an oddity. The Spurs actually began four years earlier as members of the Western Hockey League. When that...

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...

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. They played their home games at Mack Park. It was located at...

The Atlanta Black Crackers, originally called the Atlanta Cubs, were a Negro League baseball team that played from 1919 to 1952. They played as both an independent club as well as in various Negro leagues throughout their history. Their home field was Ponce de...

Built in 1912 as Redland Field, the Cincinnati Reds home ballpark was renamed Crosley Field, in honor of the team's new owner, in 1934. It was the home of the Reds until 1970 when they moved into Riverfront Stadium. One of the most iconic...

Built in 1912 as Redland Field, the Cincinnati Reds home ballpark was renamed Crosley Field, in honor of the team's new owner, in 1934. It was the home of the Reds until 1970 when they moved into Riverfront Stadium. One of the most iconic...

The Palace of the Fans was the Reds home from 1902 until 1911. In 1912, the club moved into Redland Field (on the same site). That ballpark was renamed Crosley Field, in honor of the team's new owner, in 1934. It was the home...

Como Mall opened in the Buffalo suburb of??Cheektowaga in 1973. IN 1984 it became Appletree Mall. After exiting bankruptcy it was redeveloped as Appletree Business Park.

Riverfront Stadium, later Cinergy Field, was the home of the Reds from 1970 until 2002. The team captured three World Series titles (1975, 1976, and 1990) while playing there.

The original San Jose Earthquakes played in the old North American Soccer League?? (NASL)??beginning in 1974. In 1983 and 1984, they were known as the Golden Bay Earthquakes and played in the Major Indoor Soccer League??(MISL) while still fielding the outdoor team. They left...

Cleveland's baseball team has called many places home for spring training, including New Orleans, San Antonio, Mobile, AL, and Athens GA. From 1947 to 1992, spring training was held in Tucson, Arizona. In 1993, the team was supposed to move operations to Homestead, FL,...

In 1927, New York won their fifth pennant with a record and??finished with a record of 110???44???1. They are considered to be one of the greatest teams ever.