Sports - Defunct Sports Teams, Retro Leagues

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.

After years of not having a professional football team, Los Angeles received two in 1946. One, the NFL's Rams, had just moved from Cleveland while the other, the Dons, played in the brand new All-America Football Conference. Co-owned by actor Don Ameche, the Dons...

The Memphis Tams, formerly the Memphis Pros from 1970 to 1972, played in the American Basketball Association from 1972 to 1975, changing their name to the Sounds for their final campaign. In 1975, the team moved to Baltimore to become the Claws but folded...

The Detroit Caesars were a men's professional softball team that began play in the American Professional Slo-Pitch Softball League (APSPL) in 1977. They were owned by Mike??Ilitch, whose heirs currently own the Detroit Tigers. CHECKOUT MORE GREAT DETROIT DESIGNS OS6023

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The Lumberjacks moved to Cleveland from Muskegon, Michigan. There was no need to change their nickname, as Cleveland had long been known as the Forest City. This capped lumberjack logo was used by the International Hockey League team from 1992-95 until it was changed...

The original Louisiana IceGators played in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) from 1995 to 2005. Their home ice was the Cajundome in Lafayette, LA. A new IceGators franchise debuted in the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) in 2009 but moved in 2016 to...

The Shreveport Steamer began as the Houston Texans (no relation to the current NFL team), a charter member of the World Football League (WFL) in 1974. Halfway through the season, the team moved to Louisiana. Radio legend Larry King was part of the Steamer...

The Atlanta Knights were members of the International Hockey League (IHL) from 1992 to 1996. They??played at the Omni Coliseum and were winners of the 1994 Turner Cup. In 1996, the team moved to Quebec to become the Rafales. The following year, the NHL...

The Outlaws 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 22,000 fans a game at Sam Boyd Stadium. The Outlaws hosted the first nationally televised XFL game on...

The Demons??were members of the original XFL in 2001 season, that league's only season. The team finished?? with 2 wins and 8 losses while averaging 35,000 fans a game at Pacific Bell Park (now Oracle Park), home of MLB's San Francisco Giants. They were...

The Birmingham Bolts were members of the original XFL in 2001 season, that league's only season. The team finished?? with 2 wins and 8 losses while averaging 17,000 fans a game at Legion Field.

The Memphis Maniax??were members of the original XFL in 2001 season, that league's only season. The team finished?? with 5 wins and 5 losses while averaging 20,000 fans to the Liberty Bowl.??

The Wranglers were supposed to begin play as an expansion team in the West Coast Hockey League (WCHL) in 1999. However, lack of a suitable arena delayed their debut. By the time they had settled into the Orleans Arena in 2003, the East Coast...

The Xtreme??were members of the original XFL in 2001 season, that league's only season. The team finished?? with 7 wins and 3 losses while averaging 22,000 fans at the cavernous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. They won the league's championship called the Million Dollar Game....

The Hurricane played in the original North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1978 to 1980. Their home pitch was the Astrodome.?? In the winter, the team moonlighted as the Houston Summit of the Major Indoor Soccer League. Both teams played to small crowds with...

The??Toledo Goaldiggers played in the International Hockey League from 1974 to 1986, replacing the city's previous team, the Blades (later Hornets). After 10 years in Toledo, that club moved to Lansing, Michigan at the end of the 1973/74 season. The Goaldiggers suspended operations in...

The New Orleans Black Pelicans were members of the Louisiana-Texas Colored League in 1930 and 1931. Their ace was Robert Pipkin who was also known as the Black Diamond. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The??Jacksonville Red Caps??were a??Negro league baseball??team based primarily in??Jacksonville, Florida. They played the??Negro American League from 1938 until 1942. ?? *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The??East???West All-Star Game??was an annual game for??Negro league baseball??players and held toward the end of the season. The game was created by Gus Greenlee, owner of the??Pittsburgh Crawfords. In??1933, he decided to match the??Major League Baseball All-Star Game??with??Negro league version. Newspaper balloting was set...

The??Washington Pilots??were a??Negro league baseball??team that played in the??East-West League in 1932. Baseball Hall of Famer??Mule Suttles was their star player. The league folded before the end of the season, and in 1934 the Pilots became an independent team. *Design is officially licensed from...

The??Philadelphia Stars??were a??Negro league baseball??team from??Philadelphia founded in as an independent team in 1933. In 1934, they joined the Negro National League, staying until that League's collapse following the 1948 season. They were affiliated with the Negro American League from 1949 to 1952. *Design...

The??Eastern Colored League??(ECL), officially The??Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Clubs, was one of the several??Negro leagues which operated during the time organized baseball was segregated. Teams included the Baltimore Black Sox, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Newark Stars, and Homestead Grays among others.?? ?? *Design is...

The??Negro American League??was one of several circuits that operated during the time organized American baseball was segregated. The league was established in??1937 and disbanded after the 1962 season. This is the logo the league used in its latter years. *Design is officially licensed from...

The??Negro National League??(NNL) was established in 1920 and was one of several Negro circuits established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. It dissolved in 1931. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum ??

The??Louisville Black Caps??were a professional baseball??team in the??Negro Southern League??in 1932, that circuit's only year of existence. Only five months into the season, the team relocated and to Columbus, Oho and became the Turfs??for the remaining month and a half of the season before...

The??Washington Black Senators??were a baseball team that played in the (second) Negro National League in 1938. The team was established when the Washington Elite Giants moved up the road to Baltimore.?? *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The Kansas City Monarchs are probably the most famous Negro league team of all time and were certainly the longest lasting. Even after the color barrier had been broken in Major League Baseball by Jackie Robinson (a former Monarch), the team continued on, barnstorming...

The??East???West League??was a Negro baseball league organized by Cum Posey in 1932. The league did not last the full season and folded in June of that year. It did, though,?? feature one of the strongest teams in the history of Negro league baseball, the??Detroit...