The last of Memphis’ three short-lived entries in the iconic American Basketball Association of the 1970’s, the Sounds counted Stax Records soul music legend Isaac Hayes among the team’s investors.
The re-hatched Memphis Chicks (1978-1997) were a popular Class AA minor league baseball entry in southwestern Tennessee for two decades. The city’s previous ball club, Memphis Blues, left town amidst financial problems in late 1976, leaving Memphis as the largest American city without pro baseball in 1977. Memphis serial sports investor Avron Fogelman remedied that the following year with his acquisition of a franchise in the Class AA Southern League.
The Rogues were Memphis’ first proper pro soccer team, playing three lackluster seasons at the Liberty Bowl from 1978 to 1980. The team was both more competitive and more popular playing a lone indoor season during the winter of 1979-80 at the Mid-South Coliseum. But the franchise moved to Calgary in 1980 before it could follow up on its promising indoor debut.
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