Tag: Eric Margenau

Adirondack IceHawks United Hockey League

Adirondack IceHawks

In the spring of 1999, Glens Falls, New York lost its longtime minor league hockey club, the Adirondack Red Wings. For 20 seasons, the Wings were the top farm club of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings. The team won four Calder Cups as champions of the American Hockey League during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and routinely packed the small city’s 4,800-seat Civic Arena in those years. Into the void left by the Red Wings stepped Art & Lori Shaver, who moved their United Hockey League franchise from Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Glens Falls in June of 1999.

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1999 Fort Wayne Wizards baseball yearbook from the Midwest League

Fort Wayne Wizards

When the Kenosha (WI) Twins moved to Fort Wayne in late 1992, it marked the return of men’s pro baseball to the northeast Indiana city for the first time in 45 years. The Midwest League club dropped the “Twins” identity in favor of the more kid-friendly “Wizards” when it arrived in Fort Wayne. But the franchise remained a Class A farm club of the Minnesota Twins for six more seasons through 1998. The team changed names again to the TinCaps in 2009, a re-branding effort timed to coincide with the opening of $30 million Parkview Field that same year.

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Capital City Bombers Baseball

Capital City Bombers

Columbia, South Carolina hosted a New York Mets Class A farm club in the South Atlantic League for 22 seasons from 1983 until 2004. The team was initially known as the Columbia Mets (1983-1992). In 1992 the club adopted the Capital City Bombers identity, while maintaining the long-time Mets partnership. In 2005, the franchise moved to Greenville, South Carolina.

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Kenny McEntrye on the cover of the 2005 Orlando Predators Media Guide from the Arena Football League

Orlando Predators (1991-2016)

Arena Football League (1991-2016) Born: February 7, 1991 – Arena Football League expansion franchise Folded: October 12, 2016 First Game: June 1, 1991 (W 51-38 vs. Tampa Bay

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Illustration of manager Don Leppert on the cover of a 1987 Kenosha Twins Baseball Program from the Midwest League

Kenosha Twins

Midwest League (1984-1992) Born: 1984 – The Wisconsin Rapids Twins relocate to Kenosha, WI Move Announced: March 1992 (Fort Wayne Wizards) First Game: April 13, 1984

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