Tag: Charles O. Finley

1972-73 Memphis Tams Program from the American Basketball Association

Memphis Tams

February 22, 2023

The Tams were the middle entry of three Memphis entries in the American Basketball Associations during the early 1970’s, taking the floor at the Mid-South Coliseum from 1972 through 1974. The team’s odd name was an acronym for Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi and the club used a tam o’ shanter cap as its logo. Charles O. Finley, the outspoken owner of the Oakland A’s of Major League Baseball and the NHL’s California Golden Seals, owned the club but seemingly took little interest in it. Like the A’s and the Golden Seals, the Tams wore Finley’s preferred colors of green, gold and white.

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Mobile Athletics Southern League

Mobile Athletics

November 12, 2020

Minor League Baseball returned to Mobile, Alabama in 1966 after a four-year absence. Kansas City Athletics owner Charles O. Finley transferred his team’s Class AA Birmingham farm club to the Azalea City after failing to come to an agreement for a new lease on Birmingham’s Rickwood Field. During the A’s lone summer in Mobile, the ball club ran away with the 1966 Southern League pennant, thanks to a club packed with future Major League stars such as Sal Bando, Rick Monday and Blue Moon Odom. Following the 1966 season, Finley moved the team back to Birmingham.

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Salt Lake Golden Eagles International Hockey League

Salt Lake Golden Eagles

May 15, 2018

The Salt Lake Golden Eagles hockey team was a popular mainstay on the Utah pro sports scene for a quarter century. That Eagles endured despite the shocking and untimely deaths of two team owners, the collapse of two hockey leagues of which they were members, and several 11th hour rescues from financial calamity.

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1975 Birmingham Athletics baseball program from the Southern League

Birmingham Athletics

January 25, 2014

The Birmingham Athletics (A’s) were the Class AA farm club of the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics from 1967 to 1975.  The Southern League ballclub was owned directly by Oakland’s colorful, spendthrift owner Charles O. Finley. Future Hall-of-Famers Rollie Fingers and Reggie Jackson played in Birmingham on their way to the Majors along with other key members of Oakland’s early 1970’s dynasty such as Vida Blue, Joe Rudi and Gene Tenace.

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