132 results found for “Atlanta Flames”

The Omni Coliseum, known simply as The Omni in Atlanta, opened in 1972 and was the home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL's Atlanta Flames. The Atlanta Chiefs soccer team played their indoor games there as did the Atlanta Attack soccer team. The...

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 Savannah Sand Gnats were a minor league baseball team that played in the Class A South Atlantic League from 1984 to 2015. Up until 1995, they were nicknamed the Cardinals. They were a farm team for several big league club's over their history,...

The Georgia Dome was opened in 1992 and primarily served as the home the NFL Atlanta Falcons from 1992 through 2016, replacing Atlanta Fulton County stadium, built in 1966. It was demolished on November 20, 2017. The facility also was home to the NBA...

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

The Atlanta Attack began play in 1989 as an expansion team in the American Indoor Soccer Association. Their home pitch was The Omni. In 1991, they relocated to Kansas City.

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 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...

In 1998,??Atlanta finished with a record of 106 and 56. They won the pennant but lost the championship. Despite not winning a title, they are regarded as one of the best teams ever.??

In 1998,??Atlanta finished with a record of 106 and 56. They won the pennant but lost the championship. Despite not winning a title, they are regarded as one of the best teams ever.??

The Atlanta Glory was a women’s basketball team that competed in the American Basketball League for two seasons in the mid-1990’s. OS15807

French's Ice Cream was located at 79 Georgia Avenue, just south of downtown Atlanta for much of its history. Several generations remember their fleet of trucks delivering sweet treats to neighborhoods all over town.??

In 1991, Atlanta went from worst to first finishing with a record of 94 and 68. They won the pennant but lost the championship to Minnesota, who had also gone from worst to first.

The Atlanta Crackers were a minor league baseball team that played in Georgia's capital from 1901 until the arrival of the Braves from Milwaukee in 1965. Their home for most of that time was Ponce de Leon Park. They played their final season in...

The??Georgia Force played in the Arena Football League?????from 2002 to 2012. The team was founded the Nashville Kats in 1997 and moved to Atlanta in 2002.??